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A Renaissance Reclaimed - Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered (Hardcover)
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A Renaissance Reclaimed - Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy
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A Renaissance Reclaimed brings together an international team of
historians of scholarship, politics, religion, literature, and
ideas, whose expertise straddles the Renaissance and nineteenth
century, to evaluate the achievement and legacy of the most famous
work by the Swiss 'father of cultural history' Jacob Burckhardt
(1818-97): The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). The
capaciousness of Burckhardt's vision, which embraced fashion, false
teeth, and hair extensions as well as the 'State as a work of art',
development of the individual, revival of antiquity, discovery of
the world and of man, society and festivals, and morality and
religion, has never been equalled. Insights in this volume are made
possible by the new critical edition that only serves to emphasise
how artful Burckhardt's reading of primary (pre-eminently literary
rather than art-historical) sources was. It also shows how
Burckhardt's ambivalence towards the Renaissance reflected his deep
anxieties about the social and political corollaries of
modernisation.
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