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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Short Histories Ser |
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Short Histories Ser
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Introduction -- The urban context -- The courtly context -- Hypotheses -- Chapter 1: What was the 'Northern Renaissance'? -- The concept of a renaissance -- The Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- The Renaissance as a historical period -- The concept of a 'Northern Renaissance' and its critics -- Huizinga and the 'autumn' of the Middle Ages -- The post-Huizinga dilemma -- Chapter 2: Realism and the visual arts -- The 'Eyckian revolution' -- Realism in theory and practice |
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The origins and development of realistic representation -- Realism, landscape and the natural world -- Chapter 3: Humanism in the North -- Renaissance humanism -- Humanism, scholasticism and polemic -- Erasmus and Northern Renaissance humanism -- Humanism and a new Northern Renaissance? -- Chapter 4: The old and the new devotion -- Religion and the Renaissance -- Kempis and the new devotion -- The physical and the spiritual in religious life -- Reform and revival -- Chapter 5: The impact of print -- Renaissance, Reformation and print -- The printed image |
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Chapter 4: The old and the new devotion -- Chapter 5: The impact of print -- Chapter 6: Wisdom, folly and the darker vision -- Conclusion -- Index |
| Summary |
The concept of a 'Renaissance' in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture North of the Alps often evokes the idea of a cultural transplant which was not indigenous to, or rooted in, the society from which it emerged. Classic definitions of the European 'Renaissance' during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries have seen it as what was in effect an Italian import into the Gothic North. Yet there were certainly differences, divergences and dichotomies between North and South which have to be addressed. Here, Malcolm Vale argues for a Northern Renaissance which, while cognizant of Italian developments, displayed strong continuities with the indigenous cultures of northern Europe. But it also contributed novelties and innovations which often tended to stem from, and build upon, those continuities. A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe - while in no way ignoring or diminishing the importance of the Hellenic and Roman legacy - seeks other sources, and different uses of classical antiquity, for a rather different kind of 'Renaissance', if such it was, in the North |
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Print version record |
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Renaissance -- Europe, Northern
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
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Renaissance
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Renaixement.
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Northern Europe
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Europa del Nord.
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| Genre/Form |
Llibres electrònics.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1350145637 |
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9781350145634 |
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