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Florence in the Early Modern World: New Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Florence in the Early Modern World New Perspectives

By Nicholas Scott Baker, Brian J. Maxson Copyright 2020
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge
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Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of Florence remains unique. By exploring the city’s relationship to its close and distant neighbours, this collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals the transnational history of Florence. The... Read more

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Acknowledgements

About the Contributors

  1. Where in the World is Renaissance Florence? Challenges for the History of the City After the Global Turn – Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson

    2. Part 1: Economic Perspectives

  2. Taking Architectural Theory on the Road: The Sliding Scales of the Florentine Traveler – Niall Atkinson

  3. "Tutto il mondo è paese": Locating Florence in Premodern Eurasian Commerce – Nicholas Scott Baker

  4. Mapping Gendered Labor in the Textile Industry of Early Modern Florence – Nicholas Terpstra

  5. Shaping the City and the Landscape: Politics, Public Space, and Innovation under Ferdinando I de’ Medici – Marta Caroscio

    6. Part 2: Political Perspectives

  6. Nelle parti di Romagna: The Role and Influence of the Apennine Lords in Italian Renaissance Politics – Luciano Piffanelli

  7. The Advantages of Stability: Medici Tuscany’s Ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean – Brian Brege

  8. The Medici, Maritime Empire, and the Enduring Legacy of the Cavalieri di Santo Stefano – Katherine Poole-Jones

    9. Part 3: Cultural Perspectives

  9. Poggio’s Beginnings at the Papal Curia: The Florentine Brain Drain and the Fashioning of the Humanist Movement – Clémence Revest

  10. The Myth of the Renaissance Bubble: International Culture and Regional Politics in Fifteenth-Century Florence – Brian Jeffrey Maxson

  11. New Perspectives on Patria: The Andreini Performance of Florentine Citizenship – Sarah Gwyneth Ross

　

Biography

Nicholas Scott Baker is Senior Lecturer in early modern history at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480–1550 (2013) and is completing a book on how Italians thought about the future during the Renaissance.

Brian Jeffrey Maxson is Associate Professor of History at East Tennessee State University, USA. He is the author of The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (2014) and is currently working on a study of the distinction and manipulation of private and public conceptions in Renaissance Italy.

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