The Renaissance and Reformation : a history in documents
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- ISBN: 9780195338027 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0195338022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780195308891 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0195308891 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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ix, 163 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
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General Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-156) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Introduction : Rebirths and Reformations -- The tumultuous Late Middle Ages. The Black Death ; Reactions and explanations ; Religion and the plague ; Economic and social effects ; War and revolts -- The past and the perfect. Florence: a city of gold ; The glories and perils of poetry ; Fame and the Renaissance man ; Perfect gentlemen, perfect ladies ; A perfect prince or a perfect tyrant? -- The glory of the world. The book of nature ; Nature versus art ; Painters, poets, and nature ; The artist as poet ; Fleeting life, fleeting love ; Music to charm the soul ; Messages from the stars -- Picture essay : The individual and the family -- Merchants and master craftsmen. The commercial revolution ; Families and fortunes ; Merchants and morality ; Jews in Renaissance cities ; Clothing and capitalism ; Craft guilds -- Religious reform and renewal. Popular devotion ; The power of the pope ; Calls for reform ; Reform becomes Reformation ; The Catholic response -- Radical hopes, popular protests, and mystical visions. Church and state ; Martyrs and enemies ; The Peasants' War ; A mystic Reformer -- A new moral order. Calvin's Geneva ; Marriage and the Reformation ; Preaching and teaching ; Were the Reformers successful? -- Global connections and challenges. The wealth of the Indies and the Portuguese voyages ; The voyages of Columbus ; The impact of European voyages in American and Africa ; Thinking about the Americas in Europe -- Timeline. |
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The Renaissance and Reformation : A History in Documents
Merry Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the Journal of Global History, the author or editor of twenty books, including Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (2008) and Early Modern Europe 1450-1789 (2006).