The Beauty And The Terror
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-090849-2 (ISBN)
A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance ItalyThe period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the period that gave rise to so many great artists and figures, and which by its connection to
its classical heritage enabled a redefinition, even reinvention, of human potential. It was a moment both of violent struggle and great achievement, of Michelangelo and da Vinci as well as the Borgias and Machiavelli. At
the hub of this cultural and intellectual ferment was Italy.The Beauty and the Terror offers a vibrant history of Renaissance Italy and its crucial role in the emergence of the Western world. Drawing on a rich range of sources--letters, interrogation records, maps, artworks, and inventories--Catherine Fletcher explores both the explosion of artistic expression and years of bloody conflict between Spain and France, between Catholic and Protestant, between Christian
and Muslim; in doing so, she presents a new way of witnessing the birth of the West.
Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her previous works include The Divorce of Henry VIII and The Black Prince of Florence. She teaches History and Heritage at Swansea University in the UK and has held research fellowships in London, Florence, and Rome.
Introduction: 1492
1. How We Got Here
2. Beyond the Alps
3. 1494: The French Descent
4. The Borgias versus Savonarola
5. Wars for the New World
6. The Art of War
7. Spain and Naples
8. Princes and Republics
9. The League of Cambrai
10. The Ghetto and the Politics of Venice
11. Reformation
12. The Battle for the Church
13. Wars of Words
14. The Invention of Pornography
15. Weapons of War
16. The Sack of Rome
17. Courtiers and the art of power
18. The Empire at War
19. The Council of Trent
20. The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis
21. The Art of Reform
22. The Battle of Lepanto
Epilogue: The Making of the West
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.08.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, unspecified |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-090849-1 / 0190908491 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-090849-2 / 9780190908492 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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