Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781440876035)

The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various states, cities, and kingdoms.

Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life contains excerpts from 52 different documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, led to a sense of revitalization and renewal among the city-states of northern Italy. The political development and economic expansion of those cities provided the ideal conditions for humanist scholarship to flourish. This period of literary, artistic, architectural, and cultural flowering is today known as the Renaissance, a term taken from the French and meaning "rebirth."

The Italian Renaissance reached its height in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the 1490s, the ideals of the Italian Renaissance spread north of the Alps and gave rise to a series of national cultural rebirths in various states. In many places, this Northern Renaissance extended into the 17th century, when war and religious discord put an end to the Renaissance era.

Author: John A. Wagner
ISBN-10: 1440876037
ISBN-13: 9781440876035
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2022
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/15/2022 pg. 12