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Routledge
408 Pages
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Routledge
408 Pages
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Routledge
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With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of Renaissance culture, Robin Kirkpatrick draws equal attention to the strangeness and often unresolved tensions that lay beneath the surface of that... Read more
INTRODUCTION: RENAISSANCE QUESTIONS; Part 1 THOUGHT AND CONTEXT; Chapter 1 CITIES, SPACES AND INSTITUTIONS; Chapter 2 EDUCATION, IMITATION AND CREATION; Chapter 3 REFORMATION AND THE RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUAL; Chapter 4 SCIENCE, ART AND LANGUAGE: A CONCLUSION TO Part ONE; Part 2 THE ARTS; Chapter 5 THE FIGURATIVE ARTS; Chapter 6 LYRIC, EPIC AND PASTORAL; Chapter 7 MUSIC; Chapter 8 PROSE FXCTXON AND THEATRE;
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Robin Kirkpatrick
