Renaissance Europe 1480-1520

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Review of the first edition: 'A stimulating book, produced with skill and insight.' Journal of European Studies The new edition of this classic history examines the political, economic, social, religious and cultural life of Europe at the height of the Renaissance. Professor Hale not only records the events of 1480-1520, but alsó suggests what it was like to have lived during this period. He provides readers with an understanding of the quality of the lives of people living at this time and includes processes and personalities not often covered by other books. For the second edition, Professor Michael Mailett has provided an updated bibliography and written an extended introduction explaining the book's place in the historiography of the subject. The book is arranged thematically, each chapter designed to provide information about a specific field of inquiry and alsó to give an insight into the people of this era. J. R. Hale investigates how these people felt about their environment... Tovább

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Review of the first edition: 'A stimulating book, produced with skill and insight.' Journal of European Studies The new edition of this classic history examines the political, economic, social, religious and cultural life of Europe at the height of the Renaissance. Professor Hale not only records the events of 1480-1520, but alsó suggests what it was like to have lived during this period. He provides readers with an understanding of the quality of the lives of people living at this time and includes processes and personalities not often covered by other books. For the second edition, Professor Michael Mailett has provided an updated bibliography and written an extended introduction explaining the book's place in the historiography of the subject. The book is arranged thematically, each chapter designed to provide information about a specific field of inquiry and alsó to give an insight into the people of this era. J. R. Hale investigates how these people felt about their environment and the passage of time, their relationships with government and other institutions, from the Church to the family, their economic frameworks, the part religion played in their lives and the cultural and intellectual pursuits that were available to them. Renaissance Europe compares our own attitudes to those of the Renaissance and vice versa thereby enriching the reader's understanding of everyday life in the past. J. R. Hale was formerly Professor of Italian History at University College London. He had been a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, the founding Professor of History at the University of Warwick, a visiting fellow at Harvard Centre for Renaissance Studies, I Tatti, Florence, and Professor of Italian at University College London. He was a fellow of the British Academy, a former chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery and was knighted for 'services to learning and the arts' in 1984. His books include England and the Italian Renaissance (1954), Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy (1961), Renaissance Exploration (1968), Renaissance War Studies (1983), War and Society in Renaissance Europe 1450-1620 (1985) and The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (1993). Professor Hale died in 1999. Cover illustration: Popé Leo X in Procession, detail from Italian maiolica plate, Cafiggiloga, c. I 513-21. (Courlesy of the Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London) Vissza