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Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed): John E. Law, Lene Ostermark-Johansen Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
John E. Law, Lene Ostermark-Johansen
R4,007 Discovery Miles 40 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The historiography of the Italian Renaissance has been much studied, but generally in the context of a few key figures. Much less appreciated is the extent of the enthusiasm for the subject in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the subject was 'discovered' by travellers and men and women of letters, historians, artists, architects and photographers, and by collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. The essays in Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance explore the breadth of the responses stimulated by the encounter between the British, the Americans and the Italians of the Renaissance. The volume approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. While recognising the abiding importance of the familiar 'great names', it seeks to draw attention to a wider cast of people, many of whom led colourful, energetic lives, knew Italy well, and wrote eloquently about the country and its Renaissance. Several essays show that 'Renaissance studies' became a field in which female historians could explore areas of relevance to the 'New Woman'. Other chapters examine the aims and politics of collecting and the place of the collector in literature and in the rediscovery of Renaissance artists. The contribution of teachers and other less formal champions of the Italian Renaissance is explored, as is the role of photographers who re-framed and re-viewed Florence - the Renaissance city - for Victorian and later eyes.

Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed): John E. Law Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
John E. Law; Edited by Bernadette Paton
R4,453 Discovery Miles 44 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

The Medici - Citizens and Masters (Paperback): Robert Black, John E. Law The Medici - Citizens and Masters (Paperback)
Robert Black, John E. Law
R1,011 R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Save R116 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Medici controlled fifteenth-century Florence. Other Italian rulers treated Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492) as an equal. To his close associates, he was "the boss" ("master of the workshop"). But Lorenzo liked to say that he was just another Florentine citizen. Were the Medici like the kings, princes, and despots of contemporary Italy? Or were they just powerful citizens? The Medici: Citizens and Masters offers a novel, comparative approach to answering these questions. It sets Medici rule against princely states such as Milan and Ferrara. It asks how much the Medici changed Florence and contrasts their supremacy with earlier Florentine regimes. Its contributors take diverse perspectives, focusing on politics, political thought, social history, economic policy, religion and the church, humanism, intellectual history, Italian literature, theater, festivals, music, imagery, iconography, architecture, historiography, and marriage. The book will interest students of history, Renaissance studies, Italian literature, and art history as well as anyone keen to learn about one of history's most colorful, influential, and puzzling families.

John Law's Ticketbook! - Write a Ticket to the Rude and Obnoxious! (Paperback): John E. Law John Law's Ticketbook! - Write a Ticket to the Rude and Obnoxious! (Paperback)
John E. Law
R152 Discovery Miles 1 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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