Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

Guido Ruggiero is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Miami. His previous publications include Binding Passions: Tales of Magic Marriage and Power at the End of the Renaissance (1993), The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1985), and Violence in Early Renaissance Venice (1980). He has also edited two series of books: Studies in the History of Sexuality and Selections from Quaderni Storici.

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm 1Guido RumieroPART I THE COURSE of RENAISSANCEE EVENTS 211 The Italian Renaissance 23Gene Brucker2 The European Renaissance 39Randolph Starn3 The Renaissance and the Middle East 55Linda T. Darling4 The Renaissance World from the West 70Matthew Restall5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance 88Peter BurkePART 11 THE WORLDS AND WAYS OF POWER 1056 Governments and Bureaucracies 107Edward Muir7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe 124James R. Farr8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model 139Gregory Hanlon9 Manners, Courts, and Civility 156Robert Muchembled10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World 173Joanne M. Feeraro11 Gender 188Elissa B. Weaver12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism 208John Jeffiies MartinPART I11 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WORLDS 22513 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes 227Matthew Ester14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes 243James S. Amelang15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy 259Karl Appuhn16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy 279John A. MarinoPART IV CULTURAL WORLDS 29717 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World 299David C. Gentilcore18 High Culture 316Ingrid D. Rowland19 Religious Cultures 333R. Po-chia Hsia20 Art 349Loren Partridge21 Literature 366James Grantham Turner22 Political Ideas 384John M. Najemy23 The Scientific Renaissance 403William EamonPART V ANTI-WORLDS 42524 Plague, Disease, and Hunger 427Mary Lindemann25 Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age 444Linda Woodbridge26 Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World 460Thomas F. Arnold27 Witchcraft and Magic 475Guido Ruggiero28 The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance 491Ian Frederick MoultonConsolidated Bibliography 506Index 543

"This volume would be a useful tool in an academic library providing students of the period with a valuable source of both traditional and new thought on the Renaissance world. The essays are involved and need to be considered in some detail to fully appreciate the scholarly thought. Perhaps most useful as a stepping-stone to further study, it is an excellent volume that deserves shelf space in all non-specialist academic libraries and libraries that serve history lovers." Louise Ellis-Barrett, Assistant Librarian, Dulwich College, London "This companion sets new agendas for research and explores some refreshing ways of thinking about the Renaissance. Contributors include scholars from many disciplines. Recommended for scholars, researchers, upper-division under-graduates and graduates students" Choice "This most impressive volume deserves considerable praise. The editor, in his helpful and wide-ranging introduction, ensures a fascinating and valuable volume." Journal of European Studies "This Companion (with notes, and a rich composite bibliography) is strongest on social history and literature, as well as for historical insights and literary merits" History Today "The articles are not simply factual summaries: they all have their own arguments, and many of them suggest places where the present state of knowledge is inadequate, so that the book is rich in suggestions for further research.... Ruggiero asks his readers to "applaud if you have enjoyed our performance"; yes, it is greatly enjoyable." John Considine, University of Alberta