The Renaissance Reader

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Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780062735034
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis The Renaissance Reader by : Kenneth J. Atchity

Download or read book The Renaissance Reader written by Kenneth J. Atchity and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 1997-08-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the transition between the Middle Ages and modern times, the Renaissance is perhaps the most distinguished age since that of Classic Greece. Moreover, the consciousness of our time was largely formed by those who were given freedom to express themselves by the rebirth of the arts and sciences of the Renaissance. The Renaissance Reader allows the men and women of that turbulent time of change to speak in their own voices--sane and insane, brilliant and mundane, inspired and possessed, oblivious and decisive. Organized chronologically and covering the fourteenth through the seventieth centuries, the book provides readers with the literary and artist; social, religious, and political; and scientific and philosophic texts that shaped Renaissance thinking from the death of Dante in 1321 to the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare in 1616. Selections include such familiar texts as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The book also contains works by many less familiar writers, including such prominent Renaissance women as Christine de Pizan, Isabella d'Este, and Catherine Zell. With the inclusion of the works of such brilliant artists as Giotto, de Vinci, Durer, Michelangelo, Raphael, Brueghel, and others, The Renaissance Reader brings the age to life with all its vibrance and excitement.

The Portable Renaissance Reader

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140150617
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Portable Renaissance Reader by : James Bruce Ross

Download or read book The Portable Renaissance Reader written by James Bruce Ross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-08-25 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.

Used Books

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203445
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Used Books by : William H. Sherman

Download or read book Used Books written by William H. Sherman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered it to be "enlivened by the marginal notes and comments." For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition. William H. Sherman recovers a culture that took the phrase "mark my words" quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives of their readers. Based on a survey of thousands of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. The chapters address the place of book-marking in schools and churches, the use of the "manicule" (the ubiquitous hand-with-pointing-finger symbol), the role played by women in information management, the extraordinary commonplace book used for nearly sixty years by Renaissance England's greatest lawyer-statesman, and the attitudes toward annotated books among collectors and librarians from the Middle Ages to the present. This wide-ranging, learned, and often surprising book will make the marks of Renaissance readers more visible and legible to scholars, collectors, and bibliophiles.

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140170367
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by : David Levering Lewis

Download or read book The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader written by David Levering Lewis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume—organized chronologically—includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.

Reading the Renaissance

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815323556
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading the Renaissance by : Jonathan Locke Hart

Download or read book Reading the Renaissance written by Jonathan Locke Hart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Renaissance

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Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 9781433350078
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Renaissance by : Stephanie Kuligowski

Download or read book The Renaissance written by Stephanie Kuligowski and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance was a time of cultural rebirth. Readers will learn all about Renaissance life and Renaissance education in this engaging title that explores how artists created masterpieces and explored subjects like music, architecture, Renaissance religion, and new artistic movements like naturalism. The intriguing facts and beautiful images allow readers to see examples of Renaissance art from great artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. The easy-to-read text, accessible glossary, and helpful index work together to create a captivating reading experience.

The Italian Renaissance Reader

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452010136
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis The Italian Renaissance Reader by : Julia Conaway Bondanella

Download or read book The Italian Renaissance Reader written by Julia Conaway Bondanella and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-11-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single volume introduction to the major writers of the Italian Renaissance—Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, della Mirandola, da Vinci, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Buonarroti, Guicciardini, Cellini, and Vasari.

Career Awareness Packet

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811808270
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Book Synopsis Career Awareness Packet by : Bob Barner

Download or read book Career Awareness Packet written by Bob Barner and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rendition of a traditional African American spiritual.

Renaissance Thought

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415205931
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis Renaissance Thought by : Robert Black

Download or read book Renaissance Thought written by Robert Black and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating collection of essays focusing on humanism and thought and other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy. An essential read for all students of this era.

Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576932
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (769 download)

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Book Synopsis Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy by : Brian Richardson

Download or read book Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy written by Brian Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of printing to Renaissance Italy had a dramatic impact on all users of books. As works came to be diffused more widely and cheaply, so authors had to adapt their writing and their methods of publishing to the demands and opportunities of the new medium, and reading became a more frequent and user-friendly activity. Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy focuses on this interaction between the book industry and written culture. After describing the new technology and the contexts of publishing and bookselling, it examines the continuities and changes faced by writers in the shift from manuscript to print, the extent to which they benefited from print in their careers, and the greater accessibility of books to a broader spectrum of readers, including women and the less well educated. This is the first integrated study of a topic of central importance in Italian and European culture.

Managing Readers

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472112296
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Managing Readers by : William W. E. Slights

Download or read book Managing Readers written by William W. E. Slights and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sideways look at books that sheds light on the activities of authors, printers, and readers during the English Renaissance

The Book in the Renaissance

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ISBN 13 : 9780300110098
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book in the Renaissance by : Andrew Pettegree

Download or read book The Book in the Renaissance written by Andrew Pettegree and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals in this work of great historical merit, the story of the post-Gutenberg world was rather more complicated than we have often come to believe. The Book in the Renaissance reconstructs the first 150 years of the world of print, exploring the complex web of religious, economic, and cultural concerns surrounding the printed word. From its very beginnings, the printed book had to straddle financial and religious imperatives, as well as the very different requirements and constraints of the many countries who embraced it, and, as Pettegree argues, the process was far from a runaway success. More than ideas, the success or failure of books depended upon patrons and markets, precarious strategies and the thwarting of piracy, and the ebb and flow of popular demand. Owing to his state-of-the-art and highly detailed research, Pettegree crafts an authoritative, lucid, and truly pioneering work of cultural history about a major development in the evolution of European society.

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674725573
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by : Ada Palmer

Download or read book Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance written by Ada Palmer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.

Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949760X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance by : Elizabeth Spiller

Download or read book Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance written by Elizabeth Spiller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture in which learning about the world and its human boundaries came increasingly through reading, one place where histories of race and histories of books intersect is in the minds and bodies of readers. Bringing together ethnic studies, book history and historical phenomenology, this book provides a detailed case study of printed romances and works by Montalvo, Heliodorus, Amyot, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Munday, Burton, Sidney and Wroth. Reading and the History of Race traces ways in which print culture and the reading practices it encouraged, contributed to shifting understandings of racial and ethnic identity.

The Penguin Book of the Renaissance

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ISBN 13 : 9780141390949
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of the Renaissance by : John Harold Plumb

Download or read book The Penguin Book of the Renaissance written by John Harold Plumb and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The society that produced the glories of Renaissance art was a multi-faceted one. on the one hand it produced the tender work of Giotto and the brilliance of Leonardo; on the other it encompassed the atrocities of Borgia, the fanaticism of Savonarola and the cynicism of Machiavelli. Civil disorder, political violence, religious discord and deep-seated corruption provided a setting in which genius flowered and where virtuosity originality and an explosive energy shone through in politics, in art, in thought and even in murder. Here, in this vivid survey, the whole sweep of renaissance achievement is brilliantly portrayed and analysed by Professor Plumb, assisted by a distinguished team of historians, including Kenneth Clark, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Garrett Mattingly - and by over sixty illustrations of contemporary masterpieces.

Virgil in the Renaissance

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521198127
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Book Synopsis Virgil in the Renaissance by : David Scott Wilson-Okamura

Download or read book Virgil in the Renaissance written by David Scott Wilson-Okamura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? Which commentators had the most influence? What story, if any, was Virgil's Eclogues supposed to tell? What was the status of his Georgics? Which parts of his epic attracted the most imitators? Building on specialized scholarship of the last hundred years, this book provides a panoramic synthesis of what scholars and poets from across Europe believed they could know about Virgil's life and poetry.

The Renaissance

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Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782749985
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Book Synopsis The Renaissance by : John D Wright

Download or read book The Renaissance written by John D Wright and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated throughout, The Renaissance is a highly accessible and colourful journey along the cultural contours of Europe from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period.