The Renaissance In Italy: A Social And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento

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 The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet alien; pre-modern, but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling, this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.

• | Author: Guido Ruggiero
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 22, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 648 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0521719380
• | ISBN-13: 9780521719384