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Languages and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Renaissance Italy

Author : Joshua Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503601816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Languages and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Renaissance Italy written by Joshua Brown and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much work has been done in the field of Renaissance Studies, at present there is no book which offers a comparative overview of the linguistic interaction between Renaissance Italy and the wider world. The present volume is intended to fill this void, representing the first-ever collection of essays that deal with multiple types of language contact and cross-cultural exchanges in and with respect to Renaissance Italy (1300?1600). We bring diverse disciplinary perspectives together: literary scholars, historians, and linguists with different regional expertise; we argue for multilingualism and language contact as products of a period of dynamic change which cannot be fully grasped through a single framework. The contributions present a variety of case-studies by often cross-fertilising their approaches with other disciplinary lenses. 00This book aims to provide a comprehensive picture of a truly global Renaissance Italy where languages, textual traditions, and systems of knowledge from different geographical areas either combined or clashed. It takes a fresh approach to the history of late medieval and early modern Italy by focusing on East/West linguistic and cultural encounters, transmission of ideas and texts, multilingualism in literature (various genres and various forms of multilingualism), translation practices, reception/adaptation of new knowledge, transculturalism and literary exchanges, and the relationship between languages and language varieties.

Italian as a foreign language: Teaching and acquisition in higher education

Author : Alberto Regagliolo
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 164889786X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian as a foreign language: Teaching and acquisition in higher education by : Alberto Regagliolo

Download or read book Italian as a foreign language: Teaching and acquisition in higher education written by Alberto Regagliolo and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual focuses on teaching Italian as a foreign language in the academic field, taking into consideration the various subjects and disciplines that can be found in a university course in Italian Studies. Various chapters are included within that range, for example, from Italian phonetics and dialectology to art as a means to deepen elements of the Italian language, to morphology with word formations, and to translation as well as subtitling. The range also covers technology as a tool for telecollaboration, academic writing, and learning Italian through geography or the language of vulgarity. Besides, the manual takes into consideration the use of the Italian press for learning, together with the use of comics and cartoons to teach the Italian language. The contribution aims to be a point of reference both for teachers and students who are focusing on linguistics, philology, didactics, and pedagogy. It lays emphasis on the teaching methodology, the instruments of teaching, and the available resources. It also seeks to deal with the various teaching problems and reflects on the disciplines as well as alternative proposals for teaching.

Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City

Author : Stephen J. Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521826884
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City by : Stephen J. Campbell

Download or read book Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City written by Stephen J. Campbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula, this book reexamines the Renaissance as a form of translation of a past culture. It assumes that the Renaissance attempted to assimilate the lost, or fragmentary, worlds of the Roman emperors, the Greek Platonists, and the ancient Egyptians. These essays, accordingly, explore how the processes of cultural self-definition varied between the Italian urban centers in the early modern period, well before the formation of a distinct Italian national identity.

Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of Two Popular Preachers

Author : Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of Two Popular Preachers written by Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dominican Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and the Franciscan Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444) were the most important preachers in the generation before Savonarola. Dominici's and Bernardino's sermons, as they appear in Tuscan reportationes of their preaching, are a valuable historical source. Written down by anonymous listeners, these are the major reports of sermons preached in early fifteenth-century Florence. The reportationes are unique in that they transmit in full the actual preaching event and are not merely a doctrinal summary composed by the preacher. They have never been studied in detail and remain unpublished to this day. Dominici and Bernardino were active in Florence at a time when broad legal, social and cultural changes were taking place. The central purpose of this study is to examine the response of these preachers to the changes, the alternatives they offered and their attempts to direct the life of the laity. The four principal chapters are devoted to the preachers' opinionson secular,and ecclesiastical politics, education and humanism, morality and the family and the economy and usury (the role of the Jews), the discussion built around a comparison between the two preachers. The preachers had a crucial and widespread impact on the spiritual lives of the people (especially women) and their daily habits, on political developments and on legislative measures against such fringe groups as Jews, homosexuals, prostitutes and the like. The study includes a methodological discussion of how to study these sermons as historical source, and an edition of ten sermons from MS Ricc. 1301, a collection of 47 sermons by Dominici delivered in Santa Maria Novella in Florencebetween 1400 and 1406.

City, Court, Academy

Author : Eva Del Soldato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351380303
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book City, Court, Academy written by Eva Del Soldato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the interplay and dynamic exchange of languages in the Italian peninsula, from the early fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it examines the flexible linguistic practices of both the social and intellectual elite, and the men and women from the street. The point of departure of this project is the realization that most of the early modern speakers and authors demonstrate strong self-awareness as multilingual communicators. From the foul-mouthed gondolier to the learned humanist, language choice and use were carefully performed, and often justified, in order to overcome (or affirm) linguistic and social differences. The urban social spaces, the princely court, and the elite centres of learning such as universities and academies all shared similar concerns about the value, effectiveness, and impact of languages. As the contributions in this book demonstrate, early modern communicators — including gondoliers, preachers, humanists, architects, doctors of medicine, translators, and teachers—made explicit and argued choices about their use of language. The textual and oral performance of languages—and self-aware discussions on languages—consolidated the identity of early modern Italian multilingual communities.

The Languages of Literature in Renaissance Italy

Author : Peter Hainsworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Literature in Renaissance Italy written by Peter Hainsworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of the Renaissance Italian emerged as a national literary language, which was able to compete with Latin and eventually to supplant it as the normal medium of expression in poetry, prose, and drama. Such a major cultural development was necessarily protracted and complex. Inspite of the achievements of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, many issues remained unresolved which exercised Italian writers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. How should classical models and ideals of language and style be assimilated into the vernacular? How far should the linguisticfragmentation of the country affect literature? How was the great literature of the Italian past to furnish models for the present? Italian treatment of such problems at a theoretical and practical level was to have a profound and lasting influence on writers in other European languages. This volume consists of sixteen essays by British and Italian scholars on a wide variety of linguistic and stylistic topics in Italian Renaissance writing. It includes studies of general trends, of aspects of major writers (Dante, Petrarch, Alberti, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Tasso), and also oflesser-known figures, some of whom illustrate the diverse possibilities open to writers of the time, whilst others concerned themselves with issues of literary history and evaluation. Working from a number of different angles, the essays cast light on a subject whose importance has been increasingly recognized over the last few decades, but which is still to be thoroughly explored.

Translating Faith

Author : Samantha Kelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press - T
ISBN 13 : 0674297083
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Translating Faith written by Samantha Kelly and published by Harvard University Press - T. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing account of the lives and work of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome, examining how this African diasporic community navigated the challenges of religious pluralism in the capital of Latin Christianity. Tucked behind the apse of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome is the ancient church of Santo Stefano. During the sixteenth century, Santo Stefano hosted an unusual community: a group of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims whose faith and culture were both like and unlike those of Latin Europe. The pilgrims of Santo Stefano were the only African community in premodern Europe to leave extensive documents in their own language (Gǝʿǝz). They also frequently collaborated with Latin Christians to disseminate their expert knowledge of Ethiopia and Ethiopian Christianity, negotiating the era’s heated debates over the boundaries of religious belonging. Translating Faith is the first book-length study of this community in nearly a century. Drawing on Gǝʿǝz and European-language sources, Samantha Kelly documents how pilgrims maintained Ethiopian Orthodox practices while adapting to a society increasingly committed to Catholic conformity. Focusing especially on the pilgrims’ scholarly collaborations, Kelly shows how they came to produce and share Ethiopian knowledge—as well as how Latin Christian assumptions and priorities transformed that knowledge in unexpected ways. The ambivalent legacies of these exchanges linger today in the European tradition of Ethiopian Studies, which Santo Stefano is credited with founding. Kelly’s account of the Santo Stefano pilgrim community is a rich tale about the possibilities and pitfalls of ecumenical dialogue, as well as a timely history in our own age marked by intensive and often violent negotiations of religious and racial difference.

Acculturation and Its Discontents

Author : David H. Myers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098517
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Acculturation and Its Discontents written by David H. Myers and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry. The contributors offer rich portraits of the many vibrant forms of cultural and artistic expression that Italian Jews contributed to, but this volume also pays close attention to the ways in which Italian Jews - both freely and under pressure - creatively adapted to the social, cultural, and legal norms of the surrounding society. Tracing both the triumphs and tragedies of Jewish communities within Italy over a broad span of time, Acculturation and Its Discontents challenges conventional assumptions about assimilation and state intervention and, in the process, charts the complex process of cultural exchange that left such a distinctive imprint not only on Italian Jewry, but also on Italian society itself. This collection of rigorous and thought-provoking essays makes a major contribution to both the history of Italian culture and the cultural influence and significance of European Jews.

The English Renaissance and the Far East

Author : Adele Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611475163
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The English Renaissance and the Far East written by Adele Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan. It challenges accepted, Anglocentric models of East-West relations and offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance, suggesting it was not so different from current developments in an increasingly Sinocentric world, and that as China, in particular, returns to a global center-stage that it last occupied pre-1800, a curious and overlooked synergy exists between the early modern and the present. Prompted by the current eastward tilt in global power, in particular towards China, Adele Lee examines cultural interactions between Britain and the Far East in both the early modern and postmodern periods. She explores how key encounters with and representations of the Far East are described in early modern writing, and demonstrates how work of that period, particularly Shakespeare, has a special power today to facilitate encounters between Britain and East Asia. Readers will find the past illuminating the present and vice versa in a book that has at its heart resonances between Renaissance and present-day cultural exchanges, and which takes a cyclical, “long-view” of history to offer a new, innovative approach to a subject of contemporary importance.

Rethinking Languages in Contact

Author : Anna Laura Lepschy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Languages in Contact written by Anna Laura Lepschy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date survey of the role of linguistic and cultural interaction in the process of language change. It covers theoretical issues; different forms of language contact in Medieval and Renaissance Italy; and dialect transition and diversity in the North and South of Italy.

Cultural Exchange Between the Low Countries and Italy (1400-1600)

Author : Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Exchange Between the Low Countries and Italy (1400-1600) written by Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents: Preface. Diane Wolfthal, 'Florentine Bankers, Flemish Friars, and the Patronage of the Portinari Altarpiece'; Michael Rohlmann, 'The Annunciation by Joos Ammann in Genoa: Context, Function and Metapictorial Quality'; Creighton Gilbert, 'Piero and Bouts'; Francis Ames-Lewis, 'Sources and Documents for the Use of the Oil Medium in Fifteenth-Century Italian Painting'; Maria Clelia Galassi, 'Aspects of Antonello da Messina's Technique and Working Method in the 1470s: Between Italian and Flemish Tradition'; Colin Eisler, 'Flying Pictorial Carpets - Tapestries' Transalpine Agendas'; Ingrid D. Rowland, 'Agostino Chigi's Flemish Connection'; Elizabeth Ross, 'Mainz at the Crossroads of Utrecht and Venice: Erhard Reuwich and the Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486)'; Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, 'Northern Realism and Carthusian Devotion: Bergognone's Christ Carrying the Cross for the Certosa of Pavia'; Marina Belozerskaya, 'Critical Mass: Importing Luxury Industries Across the Alps'; Barbara G. Lane, 'Memling's Impact on the Early Raphael'; Laura D. Gelfand, 'Regional Styles and Political Ambitions: Margaret of Austria's Monastic Foundation at Brou'; Yona Pinson, 'Moralized Triumphal Chariots - Metamorphosis of Petrarch's Trionfi in Northern Art (c. 1530- c. 1560)'; Frits Scholten, 'Spiriti veramente divini: Sculptors from the Low Countries in Italy, 1500-1600'; Nello Forti Grazzini, 'Brussels Tapestries for Italian Customers: Cardinal Montalto's Landscape with Animals Made by Jan II Raes and Catherine van den Eynde'. Bibliography. Colour Plates.

A Companion to the Global Renaissance

Author : Jyotsna G. Singh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119626269
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Global Renaissance written by Jyotsna G. Singh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE An innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early modern world, now in its second edition A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition provides readers with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of both macro and micro perspectives on the commercial and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Covering a uniquely broad range of literary and cultural materials, historical contexts, and geographical regions, the Companion’s varied chapters offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the implications of early modern concepts of commerce, material and artistic culture, sexual and cross-racial encounters, conquest and enslavement, social, artistic, and religious cross-pollinations, geographical “discoveries,” and more. Building upon the success of its predecessor, this second edition of A Companion to the Global Renaissance radically extends its scope by moving beyond England and English culture. Newly-commissioned essays investigate intercultural and intra-cultural exchanges, transactions, and encounters involving England, European powers, Eastern kingdoms, Africa, Islamic empires, and the Americas, within cross-disciplinary frameworks. Offering a complex and multifaceted view of early modern globalization, this new edition: Demonstrates the continuing global “turn” in Early Modern Studies through original essays exploring interconnected exchanges, transactions, and encounters Provides significantly expanded coverage of global interactions involving England, European powers such as Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands, Eastern empires such as Japan, and the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires Includes a Preface and Afterword, as well as a revised and expanded Introduction summarizing the evolving field of Global Early Modern Studies and describing the motifs and methodologies informing the essays within the volume Explores an array of new subjects, including an exceptional woman traveler in Eurasia, the Jesuit presence in Mughal India and sixteenth-century Japan, the influence of Mughal art on an Amsterdam painter-cum-poet, the cultural impact of Eastern trade on plays and entertainments in early modern London, Safavid cultural disseminations, English and Portuguese slaving practices, the global contexts of English pattern poetry, and global lyric transmissions across cultures A wide-ranging account of the global expansions and interactions of the period, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition remains essential reading for early modern scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.

Languages of Power in Italy (1300-1600)

Author : Daniel Bornstein
Publisher : Early European Research
ISBN 13 : 9782503540382
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Languages of Power in Italy (1300-1600) written by Daniel Bornstein and published by Early European Research. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore the languages - artistic, symbolic, and ritual, as well as written and spoken - in which power was articulated, challenged, contested, and defended in Italian cities and courts, villages, and countryside, between 1300 and 1600. Topics addressed include court ceremonial, gossip and insult, the performance of sanctity and public devotions, the appropriation and reuse of imagery, and the calculated invocation (and sometimes undermining) of authoritative models and figures. The collection balances a broad geographic and chronological range with a tight thematic focus, allowing the individual contributions to engage in vigorous and fruitful debate with one another even as they speak to some of the central issues in current scholarship. The authors recognize that every institutional action is, in its context, a political act, and that no institution operates disinterestedly. At the same time, they insist on the inadequacy of traditional models, whether Marxian or Weberian, as the complex realities of the early modern state pose tough problems for any narrative of modernization, rationalization, and centralization. The contributors to this volume trained and teach in various countries - Italy, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia - but share a common interest in cultural expressions of power.

Multilingualism in Italy, Past and Present

Author : Anna Laura Lepschy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism in Italy, Past and Present written by Anna Laura Lepschy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inaugural volume in a new series offers an overview of current research in Italian linguistics by specialists in Great Britiain. Topics range from the formation, present state and future prospects of Italian dialects, to the notion of 'standard' in the context of the European tradition. Further contributions cover the different strands of Renaissance Italian, the problem of language death and the presence of Italian as lingua franca in the Mediterranean area. Research into contemporary language includes gender issues in Italian lexicography and the ambivalent 'politically correct' forms referring to minorities. The volume concludes with studies on the translation of legal texts and on the status accorded to different languages within the European Union. The book will be invaluable for university students of Italian or of linguistics and will provide a comprehensive survey for all interested in the Italian language and its history.

Renaissance in Italy

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
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Download or read book Renaissance in Italy written by John Addington Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular

Author : Thomas Deneire
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789004269071
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular written by Thomas Deneire and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular offers a collection of studies that deal with the cultural exchange between Neo-Latin and the vernacular, and with the very cultural mobility that allowed for the successful development of Renaissance bilingual culture.

The Routledge History of the Renaissance

Author : William Caferro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351849468
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of the Renaissance written by William Caferro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as one of ongoing change within an international framework. It takes as its unifying theme the idea of exchange and interchange through the movement of goods, ideas, disease and people, across social, religious, political and physical boundaries. Covering a broad range of temporal periods and geographic regions, the chapters discuss topics such as the material cultures of Renaissance societies; the increased popularity of shopping as a pastime in fourteenth-century Italy; military entrepreneurs and their networks across Europe; the emergence and development of the Ottoman empire from the early fourteenth to the late sixteenth century; and women and humanism in Renaissance Europe. The volume is interdisciplinary in nature, combining historical methodology with techniques from the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology and literary criticism. It allows for juxtapositions of approaches that are usually segregated into traditional subfields, such as intellectual, political, gender, military and economic history. Capturing dynamic new approaches to the study of this fascinating period and illustrated throughout with images, figures and tables, this comprehensive volume is a valuable resource for all students and scholars of the Renaissance.