Book · September 1, 2023
How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly conne ...
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Journal ArticleNew Global Studies · July 1, 2022
The Renaissance recovery of Ptolemy’s Geography may have laid the foundations for a scientific cartography, but the new interest in maps, which provided an increasingly sophisticated orientation to the unknown, also opened up a new prophetic space. And the ...
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Chapter · January 12, 2022
In this essay, John Martin uses the autobiographical musings of Montaigne's Essays as a starting point for reconsidering the nature of the sense of self and the individual in the context of Life-Writing and Egodocuments in the early modern period for Monta ...
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Book · January 1, 2022
An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations “A masterful synthesis of the prognostications of faith, knowledge, and politics on ...
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Journal ArticleActa Histriae · January 1, 2017
Upon encountering cannibalism among New World natives, some European observers concluded that those South American Indian tribes who practiced it (mainly Brazilian) were savages. Montaigne was an exception. To the contrary, in his Essays, Montaigne is sati ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Review of History · July 4, 2015
Writing in a period of considerable anxiety about gender roles, Montaigne (1533-92) developed a series of reflections on gender and masculinity in which he destabilized the gender and sexual hierarchies of early-modern France. First, drawing on an increasi ...
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Journal ArticleActa Histriae · January 1, 2011
Manuals of jurisprudence in early modern Europe stipulated that the notary record not only the words but also the grimaces and the screams of the defendant during interrogations under torture. This paper explores these "tortured testimonies" from the Roman ...
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Book · 2007
This book shows that this period of change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces, and a cluster of interrelated practices. ...
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Conference · 2007
This paper proffers an analysis of those elites within orthern Italian society who did, with varying degrees of intensity, embrace the new religious ideas of the period. The analysis focuses on three groups: (1) highly-placed ecclesiastics; (2) the court n ...
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Book · 2003
Including the most recent scholarship on the history of the Renaissance, this book examines politics, society, identity, gender, religion and science, and focuses on not only Italian developments in this crucial period of change, but also on aspects in Ger ...
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Book · December 31, 2002
In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. ...
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OtherRenaissance Quarterly · 1996
Genealogie incredibili: Scitti di storia nel' Europa moderna. by Roberto Bizzocchi; La staza delta memoria: modelli letterari e iconografici nell' eta della stampa. by Lina Bolzoni; La Fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento. by Andrea Carl ...
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OtherRenaissance Quarterly · 1995
"Una città infetta": La Repubblica di Lucca nella crisi religiosa del Cinquecento. by Simoneta Adorni-Braccesi; Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. by Daniel Bornstein; Roberto Rusconi; Eretici italiani del Cinquecento e altri scritti. by Delio C ...
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OtherRenaissance Quarterly · 1994
De vera Amicitia: I Testi del Primo Certame Coronario. by Lucia Bertolini; La Repubblica di Venezia nell'età Moderna: Dal 1517 alla fine della Repubblica. by Gaetano Cozzi; Michael Knapton; Giovanni Scarabello; Documentary Culture: Florence and Rome from G ...
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