The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology

Forsideomslag
Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, Roberta Wood, Nicholas Webb
Yale University Press, 1. jan. 2000 - 412 sider
The Renaissance, as both a period and a concept, continues to generate lively debate about its origins and influence on European culture and thought. Recent research has emphasized the need to look again at original texts, documents, and artifacts. Any new evaluation of the historical significance of the Renaissance requires attention to these kinds of primary evidence. This anthology responds to the impetus with an important collection of primary sources, selected to reflect the richness and wide variety of Renaissance studies.

The original texts are arranged thematically, and each is introduced by a brief headnote describing the author and the source. Sections of the volume are devoted to humanism and its impact on music, philosophy, and politics; Renaissance court culture; poetry and drama in Renaissance Britain; the Reformation; and science, magic, and witchcraft. Some of the texts are short and familiar, others--such as an early sixteenth-century demonology by Italian humanist Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola--appear here in translation for the first time. The anthology is illustrated throughout.

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Introduction
1
64
11
i Sir Thomas Chaloners Introduction to
17
5
22
III
26
7
34
8
44
Marguerite of Navarre Novel XXX from The Heptameron
56
43
240
48
250
51
256
53
266
56
272
Girolamo Savonarola The Sermon on the Renovation of the Church
286
60
293
230
300

Leonardo Bruni Preface to The History of the Florentine People
62
14
71
121
73
Baldassare Castiglione The Courtier
88
Francesco Guicciardini The Sack of Prato and the return of the Medici
130
25
149
Francesco Guicciardini Maxims and Reflections
164
31
172
i The Science of
180
35
212
37
219
40
225
42
234
Martin Luther Letter to Eobanus Hessus
304
69
314
72
323
74
329
75
336
82
347
85
353
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360
Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola The Witch or On the Deception
366
i Montaigne witnesses a ceremony
396
Index
403
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