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The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance

Author : Edward Muir

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 47,46 MB

Release : 2009-06-30

Category : History

ISBN : 0674041267

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In this book, Muir explores an era of cultural innovation that promoted free inquiry in the face of philosophical and theological orthodoxy, advocated libertine morals, critiqued the tyranny of aristocratic fathers over their daughters, and expanded the theatrical potential of grand opera. In so doing, he reveals the distinguished past of today's culture wars, including debates about the place of women in society, the clash between science and faith, and the power of the arts to stir emotions.



The War of the Fists

Author : Robert Charles Davis

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 24,17 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Battles

ISBN : 0195084047

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"The War of the Fists" is a study of 17th-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or "battagliole", which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. Their importance in the city's plebeian life makes bridge battles an extremely valuable point of entry for exploring structures of Venetian popular culture, a task which Robert Davis attempts at several levels.



War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

Author : Anastasia Stouraiti

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 24,25 MB

Release : 2022-12-31

Category : History

ISBN : 1108986153

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Weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies, this book shows how war and colonial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venetian culture and society. Anastasia Stouraiti tests conventional assumptions about republicanism, commercial peace and cross-cultural exchange and offers a novel approach to the study of the Republic of Venice. Her extensive research brings the history of communication in dialogue with conquest and empire-building in the Mediterranean to provide an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in wartime Venice. The book argues that the Venetian-Ottoman War of the Morea (1684-1699) was mediated through a diverse range of cultural mechanisms of patrician elite domination that orchestrated the production of popular consent. It sheds new light on the militarisation of the Venetian public sphere and exposes the connections between bellicose foreign policies and domestic power politics in a state celebrated as the most serene republic of merchants.



Renaissance France at War

Author : David Potter

Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Page : 456 pages

File Size : 13,59 MB

Release : 2008

Category : History

ISBN : 1843834057

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The rulers of Renaissance France regarded war as hugely important. This book shows why, looking at all aspects of warfare from strategy to its reception, depiction and promotion.



Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance

Author : Teodoro Katinis

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 20,27 MB

Release : 2017-11-01

Category : History

ISBN : 9004354735

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In Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance Teodoro Katinis mines a number of little or unstudied primary sources and offers the first book on the rebirth of ancient sophists in the Italian literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Leonardo Bruni to Jacopo Mazzoni, with a focus on the Italian writer and philosopher Sperone Speroni (1500-1588). Katinis convincingly argues that Speroni is a unique case of an early modern thinker who explicitly rejected Plato’s demonization and defended the public role of the sophistic rhetoric, which enhanced the debate over the sophistic arts and scepticism in a variety of fields and anticipated some of the most revolutionary modern thoughts.



Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond

Author : Eric Adler

Publisher : University of Michigan Press

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 25,98 MB

Release : 2016-11

Category : Art

ISBN : 0472130153

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Scrutinizes the contentious ideological feuds in American academia during the 1980s and 1990s



Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence

Author : Philip Gavitt

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 16,61 MB

Release : 2011-08-22

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 110700294X

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This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position, and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve.



Voices of Feminist Liberation

Author : Emily Leah Silverman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 313 pages

File Size : 47,91 MB

Release : 2014-10-14

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1317543696

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'Voices of Feminist Liberation' brings together a wide range of scholars to explore the work of Rosemary Radford Ruether, one of the most influential feminist and liberation theologians of our time. Ruether's extraordinary and ground-breaking thinking has shaped debates across liberation theology, feminism and eco-feminism, queer theology, social justice and inter-religious dialogue. At the same time, her commitment to practice and agency has influenced sites of local resistance around the world as well as on globalised strategies for ecological sustainability and justice. 'Voices of Feminist Liberation' examines the potential of Ruether's thinking to mobilize critical theology, social theory and cultural practice. The scholars gathered here present their personal engagements with Ruether's thinking and teaching. The book will be invaluable to scholars, policy-makers, and activists seeking to understand how colonial and patriarchal oppression in the name of religion can be confronted and defeated.



Venice Incognito

Author : James H. Johnson

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 21,17 MB

Release : 2017-01-10

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 0520294653

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"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the libertine Casanova. In Venice Incognito, James H. Johnson offers a spirited analysis of masking in this carnival-loving city. He draws on a wealth of material to explore the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. This vivid account goes beyond common views that masking was about forgetting the past and minding the muse of pleasure to offer fresh insight into the historical construction of identity.



Conversations with Angels

Author : J. Raymond

Publisher : Springer

Page : 357 pages

File Size : 16,4 MB

Release : 2011-08-09

Category : History

ISBN : 0230316972

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Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.