The Renaissance
30 Nov 2009 11:36
See also: Demonology; Early Modern Europe [a superset of the Renaissance]; Erasmus; Scientific Revolution
- Recommended:
- Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Peter Burke, The Renaissance Sense of the Past
- Alfred Crosby, The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250--1600
- S. A. Farmer, Syncretism in the West: Pico's 900 These (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems
- Walter Ferguson et al., The Renaissance: Six Essays
- John R. Hale
- The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance [Pun, and play on Burckhardt, not only intended but appropriate]
- War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450--1620
- Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance [More a collection of examples illustrating the rise of "bravura consumerism," and how it tied in to all the other fun stuff, than a really new history]
- Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance Thought
- Jay A. Levenson (ed.), Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration [Wonderful survey of world art in the Renaissance, worth the price just for the pictures]
- John F. Padgett and Christopher K. Ansell, "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400--1434", American Journal of Sociology 98 (1993): 1259--1319 [JSTOR]
- Erwin Panofsky, Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
- Sergio Rinaldi, "Laura and Petrarch: An Intruiging Case of Cyclical Love Dynamics," SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 58 (1998): 1205--1221
- Wayne Shumaker, The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns
- H. R. Trevor-Roper, Renaissance Essays
- To read:
- Douglas Biow, Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy [Blurb]
- Marie Boas, The Scientific Renaissance, 1450--1630
- William J. Bouwsma, The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550--1640
- Jerry Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
- Malcolm Bull, The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods
- Peter Burke, The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy
- Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth [Blurb]
- Nicholas Cusanus, De Docta Ignorantia [Translation currently in print as Nicholas of Cusa on Learned Ignorance]
- Allen G. Debus, Man and Nature in the Renaissance [Blurb]
- Brendan Dooley, Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics [Blurb, introduction]
- Samuel Y. Edgerton, The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution
- Luba Freedman, The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic
- Bertrand Gille, Engineers of the Renaissance
- Richard A. Goldthwaite, Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300--1600
- Anthony Grafton [Writes nicely in the New York Review,
dunno about his books]
- Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation
- Defenders of the Text
- Forgers and Critics
- Giordano's Cosmos
- Leon Battista Alberti
- and Nancy Sirasi (eds.), Natural Particulars
- Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton, Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
- Klibansky, Panofsky and Saxl, Saturn and Melancholy
- Kristeller, Marsilio Ficino
- Katherine Crawford Luber, Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance
- Rosamond E. Mack, Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300--1600 [Blurb, intro]
- Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life
- Armando Maggi
- John Martin, Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City [Blurb]
- Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy
- George T. Matthews (ed.), News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe: The Fugger Newsletters
- H. C. Erik Midelfort, Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany
- Edward Muir, The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera [Blurb]
- Charles G. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe [blurb]
- Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen (eds.), Difference & Dissent: Theories of Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- Erwin Panofsky
- Perspective as Symbolic Form
- Renaissance and Reanscences in Western Art
- Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in Art
- Walter Pater, The Renaissance
- Sarah Gwyneth Ross, The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England [blurb]
- Ingrid D. Rowland, The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome
- George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance [blurb; author's self-presentation]
- Deborah K. Shuger, Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture
- Jean Seznec, The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Reanissance Humanism and Art
- J. K. J. Thomson, Decline in History: The European Experience
- Dora Thornton, The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy [Review by James Fenton]
- Jessica Wolfe, Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature [Blurb]
