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This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian
practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era.
Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a
period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance'.
Contributors take a novel approach to the revival of the antique in
different parts of Italy, as well as examining other, less widely
studied antiquarian traditions in France, the Netherlands, Spain,
Portugal, Britain and Poland. They consider how real or fictive
ruins, inscriptions and literary works were used to demonstrate a
particular idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt
civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied subjects as
municipal antiquities collections in Southern Italy and France, the
antiquarian response to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on
the Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in megalithic
ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric race of Giants. -- .
A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy will provide
readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy with an introduction to
different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history
and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated
at the centre of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a
backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, a team
of specialists presents a general survey of the most recent
research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insights into
the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition
of the city and continuity and discontinuity at the turn of the
sixteenth century, and the effects of dynastic changes from the
Angevin and Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty.
Contributors: Giancarlo Abbamonte, David Abulafia, Guido Cappelli,
Chiara De Caprio, Bianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Delle Donne, Teresa
D'Urso, Dinko Fabris, Guido Giglioni, Antonietta Iacono, Fulvio
Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti, Francesco Montuori, Pasquale Palmieri,
Eleni Sakellariou, Francesco Senatore, Francesco Storti, Pierluigi
Terenzi, Carlo Vecce, Giuliana Vitale, and Andrea Zezza.
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