{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-renaissance-in-southern-italy-1350-1600-9789004384170","title":"A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy (1350–1600)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, the essays in this volume paint a rather different picture. The expert-written contributions present a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insight into the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition of the city, continuity and discontinuity at the turn of the sixteenth century, and the effects of dynastic changes from the Angevin and Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty. Taken together, they form an essential resource on an important, yet all too often overlooked or misunderstood part of Renaissance Italy.    Contributors: Giancarlo Abbamonte, David Abulafia, Guido Cappelli, Chiara De Caprio, Bianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Delle Donne, Teresa D’Urso, Dinko Fabris, Guido Giglioni, Antonietta Iacono, Fulvio Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti, Francesco Montuori, Pasquale Palmieri, Eleni Sakellariou, Francesco Senatore, Francesco Storti, Pierluigi Terenzi, Carlo Vecce, Giuliana Vitale, and Andrea Zezza.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Maps and Figures  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Bianca de Divitiis    Part 1 The Context    1 The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in Its Mediterranean Context   David Abulafia    2 The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish Rule   Pierluigi Terenzi    3 Demography, Economy, and Trade   Eleni Sakellariou    4 Religion: Institutions, Devotion, and Heresy   Pasquale Palmieri    5 Linguistic Spaces: Use and Culture   Francesco Montuori    6 Mapping the Kingdom: History and Geography   Bianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo    Part 2 Urban Networks    7 Cities, Towns, and Urban Districts in Southern Italy   Francesco Senatore    8 Urban Spaces and Society in Southern Italy   Giuliana Vitale    9 Factional Conflict and Political Struggle in Southern Italian Cities and Towns   Francesco Storti    10 Jews, Conversos and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of Naples   David Abulafia    11 Territorial and Urban Infrastructures: Ports, Roads, and Water Supply   Fulvio Lenzo    12 Architectural Patronage and Networks   Bianca de Divitiis    Part 3 Histories and Narratives    13 Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty   Fulvio Delle Donne    14 Political Treatises   Guido Cappelli    15 Writing about Cities: Local History, Antiquarianism, and Classical Sources   Lorenzo Miletti    16 Written and Oral Culture: Oral Narratives, Administrative Texts, Vernacular Historiography in Southern Italy   Chiara De Caprio    17 Literacy and Administration in the Towns of Southern Italy   Francesco Senatore    Part 4 Cultural Patterns    18 Literature and Theater   Carlo Vecce    19 Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: The Long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista Vico   Guido Giglioni    20 The Academies from the Death of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano to the End of the Sixteenth Century   Antonietta Iacono    21 Libraries of Humanists and of the Elites in Southern Italy   Giancarlo Abbamonte    22 Manuscript Illustration in the South of the Italian Peninsula   Teresa D’Urso    23 Paintings, Frescoes, and Cycles   Andrea Zezza    24 Music and Music Patronage at the Courts of the Kingdom   Dinko Fabris    Kings and Viceroys  Maps  Figures  Glossary  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210762346839,"sku":"9789004384170","price":172.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-the-renaissance-in-southern-italy-1350-1600-9789004384170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}