A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

By Guido Ruggiero

Subjects: Italy, social conditions, Power (social sciences), Nonfiction, Europe, social conditions, Renaissance, italy, Italy, civilization, History, Italy, intellectual life

Description: This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive. Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective. Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite. Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are integrated into the analysis.