Description
Book SynopsisThis volume directs a transdisciplinary gaze on the field of Renaissance Studies as currently practised in Europe, North America and beyond. The concept of the Renaissance as applied to a particular time and place is still regarded as being of central importance to the history of thought and culture. The essays collected here raise the question of the contemporary relevance of the Renaissance.
What is the significance of doing Renaissance Studies
now, not only in terms of the field per se, but in terms of what the field has to say to contemporary society? In the past, the field of Renaissance Studies has drawn themes and orientations from particular concerns of the moment, without losing its rigorous focus, and has given back crucial insights to those studying it. Could the same be said today? To facilitate a multifaceted answer, this book attempts to cover some of the principal areas of this interdisciplinary field within the humanities and social sciences. Contributors include specialists in history, languages and literatures, the history of science, cultural studies, art history, philosophy, sociology and politics.
Table of ContentsContents: Sheila Barker: The Drowning Man in Michelangelo’s
Battle of Cascina – Nicola Gardini: Osiris and the End of the Renaissance – Heinrich Lang: Renaissance Economies: Markets, Tastes, Representations – Maximilian Schuh: Making Renaissance Humanism Popular in the Fifteenth-Century Empire: The
studia humanitatis at the University of Ingolstadt – Thomas F. Earle: The Two Adamastores: Diversity and Complexity in Camões’s
Lusiads – Tom Conley: Renaissance
que voicy: Torque in a Tower (Reading Montaigne,
Essais, III, iii) – David Edwards: Fashioning Service in a Renaissance State: The Official Journals of the Elizabethan Viceroys in Ireland – José Montero Reguera: Cervantes and Renaissance: A Chapter in the History of Hispanic Studies – Chris Barrett: The Map You Cannot See:
Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Navigation – Brendan Dooley: Keep This Secret! Renaissance Knowledge between Freedom and Restraint – Federico Barbierato: Popular Atheism and Unbelief: A Seventeenth-Century Venetian Point of View – Paul R. Wright: The Raw and the Cooked: The Renaissance as Cultural Trope in Times of Crisis – Joseph S. Freedman: The History of ‘Scientific Method’ (
methodus scientifica) in the Early Modern Period and its Relevance for School-Level and University-Level Instruction in Our Time – Brendan Dooley: Digital Renaissance.
