Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550

0198700393......Page 1
Contents......Page 11
General Editor\'s Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 15
Introduction: Italy and the Renaissance......Page 19
Literacy and the rise of the vernacular......Page 36
Primary and secondary education......Page 37
Latin and vernacular education......Page 42
The revival of Latin, and humanist education......Page 47
The triumph of humanist education......Page 51
The passion for antiquity......Page 55
Emergence of humanism: Padua and Florence......Page 56
Francesco Petrarca......Page 58
Humanism in Florence......Page 60
Varieties of humanism: Naples, Venice, Milan, and Rome......Page 65
Humanist communities......Page 70
Humanist practice: annotation, translation, citation......Page 72
Religion and the Renaissance......Page 77
The Church in Italy......Page 79
Italy without the popes......Page 82
Papal schism and civic control of religion......Page 87
A flawed recovery......Page 89
Awaiting the deluge......Page 94
Old and new perspectives......Page 100
Legal framework......Page 102
Patria potestas......Page 104
Demographic framework......Page 107
Marriage norms......Page 108
Making marriage......Page 109
Dowries......Page 111
Living marriage......Page 113
Termination of marriage......Page 116
Inheritance......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 119
Bodies as social texts......Page 121
Plague and syphilis......Page 123
Jews, prostitutes, and the body social......Page 128
Social contagion......Page 135
Prosperity or hard times?......Page 142
Three cases of \'reconversion\'......Page 145
The origins of \'proto-industry\' and the formation of \'economic regions\'......Page 149
The organization of work......Page 152
The \'real economy\' and the guild system......Page 156
The distribution of wealth and its imbalances......Page 158
7 The popolo......Page 163
Popular associations and governments......Page 164
Magnates and popolani......Page 168
The popolo in Florence, Siena, Rome, and Genoa......Page 170
The popolo minuto......Page 174
Reaction against the popolo......Page 175
Popular ideology and culture......Page 177
Late revivals......Page 180
Authority and attitudes: continuity and change......Page 183
Defining the elites: size, wealth, office-holding, prestige......Page 186
Issues of inclusion and exclusion: popolo and magnates......Page 193
Personal bonds: the cement of elites and the basis of patronage......Page 196
Patronage, politics, and the state......Page 200
9 Governments and governance......Page 202
Republics......Page 203
Signorie......Page 207
Territorial states......Page 210
Functions of government......Page 213
Public order and justice......Page 214
Armies and war......Page 216
Taxation and public finance......Page 218
Diplomacy......Page 221
The new paternalism......Page 222
Is the South different?......Page 226
The crisis of monarchic centralization......Page 230
Spanish kings and French intruders......Page 236
The southern Renaissance......Page 242
11 Representations of power......Page 244
The power of perception......Page 245
Vocabularies of power......Page 249
Representing the pope......Page 254
Representing the city......Page 257
Representing the prince and court......Page 260
The crisis of 1494 and its impact on Renaissance culture......Page 264
The new political realism......Page 272
Renaissance culture in Italian courts......Page 277
Further reading......Page 285
Chronology......Page 315
Maps......Page 325
B......Page 331
C......Page 332
F......Page 334
G......Page 335
L......Page 337
M......Page 338
P......Page 340
R......Page 341
S......Page 342
T......Page 343
V......Page 344
W......Page 345