The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance

by Edward Muir

Author	: Edward Muir
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Total Pages	: 193
Release	: 2009-06-30
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 0674041267

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In this book, Muir explores an era of cultural innovation that promoted free inquiry in the face of philosophical and theological orthodoxy, advocated libertine morals, critiqued the tyranny of aristocratic fathers over their daughters, and expanded the theatrical potential of grand opera. In so doing, he reveals the distinguished past of today's culture wars, including debates about the place of women in society, the clash between science and faith, and the power of the arts to stir emotions.

The War of the Fists

by Robert Charles Davis

Author	: Robert Charles Davis
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages	: 242
Release	: 1994
Genre	: Battles
ISBN	: 0195084047

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"The War of the Fists" is a study of 17th-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or "battagliole", which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. Their importance in the city's plebeian life makes bridge battles an extremely valuable point of entry for exploring structures of Venetian popular culture, a task which Robert Davis attempts at several levels.

War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

by Anastasia Stouraiti

Author	: Anastasia Stouraiti
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 309
Release	: 2022-12-31
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 1108986153

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Weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies, this book shows how war and colonial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venetian culture and society. Anastasia Stouraiti tests conventional assumptions about republicanism, commercial peace and cross-cultural exchange and offers a novel approach to the study of the Republic of Venice. Her extensive research brings the history of communication in dialogue with conquest and empire-building in the Mediterranean to provide an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in wartime Venice. The book argues that the Venetian-Ottoman War of the Morea (1684-1699) was mediated through a diverse range of cultural mechanisms of patrician elite domination that orchestrated the production of popular consent. It sheds new light on the militarisation of the Venetian public sphere and exposes the connections between bellicose foreign policies and domestic power politics in a state celebrated as the most serene republic of merchants.

Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance

by Teodoro Katinis

Author	: Teodoro Katinis
Publisher	: BRILL
Total Pages	: 186
Release	: 2017-11-01
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 9004354735

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In Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance Teodoro Katinis mines a number of little or unstudied primary sources and offers the first book on the rebirth of ancient sophists in the Italian literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Leonardo Bruni to Jacopo Mazzoni, with a focus on the Italian writer and philosopher Sperone Speroni (1500-1588). Katinis convincingly argues that Speroni is a unique case of an early modern thinker who explicitly rejected Plato’s demonization and defended the public role of the sophistic rhetoric, which enhanced the debate over the sophistic arts and scepticism in a variety of fields and anticipated some of the most revolutionary modern thoughts.

Voices of Feminist Liberation

by Emily Leah Silverman

Author	: Emily Leah Silverman
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 313
Release	: 2014-10-14
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1317543696

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'Voices of Feminist Liberation' brings together a wide range of scholars to explore the work of Rosemary Radford Ruether, one of the most influential feminist and liberation theologians of our time. Ruether's extraordinary and ground-breaking thinking has shaped debates across liberation theology, feminism and eco-feminism, queer theology, social justice and inter-religious dialogue. At the same time, her commitment to practice and agency has influenced sites of local resistance around the world as well as on globalised strategies for ecological sustainability and justice. 'Voices of Feminist Liberation' examines the potential of Ruether's thinking to mobilize critical theology, social theory and cultural practice. The scholars gathered here present their personal engagements with Ruether's thinking and teaching. The book will be invaluable to scholars, policy-makers, and activists seeking to understand how colonial and patriarchal oppression in the name of religion can be confronted and defeated.

Venice Incognito

by James H. Johnson

Author	: James H. Johnson
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Total Pages	: 334
Release	: 2017-01-10
Genre	: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN	: 0520294653

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"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the libertine Casanova. In Venice Incognito, James H. Johnson offers a spirited analysis of masking in this carnival-loving city. He draws on a wealth of material to explore the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. This vivid account goes beyond common views that masking was about forgetting the past and minding the muse of pleasure to offer fresh insight into the historical construction of identity.

Conversations with Angels

by J. Raymond

Author	: J. Raymond
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 357
Release	: 2011-08-09
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 0230316972

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Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.

A Renaissance of Violence

by Colin Rose

Author	: Colin Rose
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 261
Release	: 2019-10-17
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 110849806X

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This in-depth analysis of homicide patterns in seventeenth-century Italy explores the social contexts behind a sharp rise in interpersonal violence.

The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music

by Jane F. Fulcher

Author	: Jane F. Fulcher
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 606
Release	: 2011-09-29
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 0195341864

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As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music fosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself.