Italy in the Age of the Renaissance

• Accessible treatment of themes by a team of leading specialists provides a perfect introduction to the latest thinking in the field without the need for extensive background knowledge.
• Inclusion of recent research in social and political history helps present a new, wider picture of Italian history in this period than that provided by the more restricted traditional accounts.
• Comprehensive treatment of all areas of Italy helps the reader to look beyond the traditional concentration on Florence and Venice.
• Coverage of the thirteenth century helps the reader to understand the important and often neglected links between the Renaissance and the preceding medieval period.

Readership: Undergraduate History students studying courses in the Renaissance or Italy in the Renaissance etc. Also the general reader interested in Renaissance studies. In the US, could also be of interest to students on broader introductory courses (eg Western Civilization / World History), most of which contain courses on Renaissance Italy and / or Europe.

Edited by John M. Najemy, Professor of History, Cornell University

John M. Najemy: Introduction
1: Robert Black: Education and the Emergence of a Literate Society
2: Carol Everhart Quillen: Humanism and the Lure of Antiquity
3: David S. Peterson: Religion and the Church
4: Julius Kirshner: Family and Marriage: a Socio-Legal Perspective
5: Diane Owen Hughes: Bodies, Disease, and Society
6: Franco Franceschi: The Economy: Work and Wealth
7: Andrea Zorzi: The Popolo
8: Dale Kent: The Power of the Elites: Family, Patronage, and the State
9: John M. Najemy: Governments and Governance
10: David Abulafia: The South
11: Edward Muir: Representations of Power
12: Alison Brown: Rethinking the Renaissance in the Aftermath of Italy's Crisis
Further Reading
Chronology