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Much of what is known about people's everyday lives in times past comes from artifacts but also from diaries, letters, and other writings. Many important details of life during the Civil war, for instance, can be found in the diaries of women who carried on while their men were at war. In the Living History series, firsthand accounts such as these are combined with thoughtful narrative to offer a rich and vivid portrait of daily life in various times...
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The Italian Renaissance retains its extraordinary hold on the historical imagination. What began as arediscoveryy of the culture and values of the ancient world came to invent our notion of the 'Middle Ages' and continues to pose sharp and searching questions as to what we regard as the beginning of the 'modern' era. However, what was 'the Italian Renaissance'? Was there a singlephenomenonn that affected the entire peninsula and had meaning for all...
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"In the past seven centuries Dante has become world renowned, with his works translated into multiple languages and read by people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. This volume brings together interdisciplinary essays by leading, international scholars to provide a comprehensive account of the historical, cultural and intellectual context in which Dante lived and worked: from the economic, social and political scene to the feel of daily life;...
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This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence, and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated...
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This provocative study of the political, social and cultural evolution of the Italian city-states that produced the great burst of innovation known as the Renaissance explores the development of the middle class and the transformation of small feudal towns into centers of commerce and culture, showing how rapid urbanization and shifting wealth and population created new social political factions and engendered an explosion of artistic and intellectual...
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This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. Examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. The book includes discussions...
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