1st Edition
Roman Tales A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory
By Thomas V. Cohen
Copyright 2019
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Roman Tales: A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory. This book draws the reader deep into eight stories: a Christian-Jewish picnic plus an ill-aimed stone fight, an embassy-driven attack on Rome's police, a magic prophetic mirror, an immured mad hermit, a stolen dwarf,... Read more
Ackowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 First Thoughts; 2 If on a Summer's Eve a Traveller, or Two; 3 White Angel; 4 The Spanish Ambassador's Brawl; 5 Hermit on Trial; 6 The Case of the Purloined Dwarf; 7 Black Velvet's Odd Adventure; 8 Nicolina Runs Away; 9 A Boy Steals Gold; Afterword
Biography
Thomas V. Cohen is a professor of history at York University, Canada. His previous publications include Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (2004).
