The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521719384)

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence, and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet alien; pre-modern, but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling, this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.

Author: Guido Ruggiero
ISBN-10: 0521719380
ISBN-13: 9780521719384
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2014
Pages: 648
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2015