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Italian Art, 1250-1550: The Relation of Renaissance Art to Life and Society

Contributors:: Bruce Cole
Publisher:: Harper & Row 1987
Subjects:: Art, Early Renaissance--Italy
Art And Society--Italy
Art, Italian

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...and so on.An extensive body of saint lore pervaded the Renaissance. Itwas a time when doctors were extremely learned but almost...altarpiece.Bonaventura's painting tells us much about the roles of altar,piece and saint alike. We see at once that the...

Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence

Contributors:: William J. Connell
Publisher:: University of California Press 2002
Subjects:: Florence (Italy)--Civilization
Renaissance--Italy--Florence

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...book: “The Renaissance and the Birth of a Consumer Society, ” RenaisU...G. A. Brucker, Renaissance Florence (New...reflexively performing the roles assigned to them by a male-dominated society.See his La domination...

Patronage, Art, and Society in Renaissance Italy

Contributors:: F. W. Kent
Patricia Simons
J. C. Eade
Publisher:: Oxford University Press 1987
Subjects:: Art, Italian
Art Patronage--Italy
Art Patronage--Italy--Florence
Artists And Patrons--Italy
Artists And Patrons--Italy--Florence

Art, Italian--Italy--Florence Art, Renaissance--Italy Art, Renaissance--Italy--Florence
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...relationships.But society could not exist if people...within the contemporary society itself. Afundamentally...relationships of the Renaissance were anamalgam of overlapping...friendship (aswell as roles as citizen or subject...stable throughout the Renaissance; and, even if the...

Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context

Contributors:: Robert Matz
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press 2000
Subjects:: Social Change In Literature
English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc
Literature And Society--England--History--16th Century
Social Change--England--History--16th Century
Criticism--England--History--16th Century
Renaissance--England

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...pressure of social andreligious change, the roles of the old knight and Renaissance courtier werebecoming untenable” U...in(frustrated) opposition to the Renaissance court (see Walzer's reference toSidney...

A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance

Contributors:: Albert Russell Ascoli
Publisher:: Fordham University Press 2011
Subjects:: Italian Literature--History and Criticism
Literature and History--Italy
Collective Memory and Literature
Civilization, Medieval, in Literature
Renaissance--Italy
Literature and Society--Italy

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...claim that [clothes makethe woman,] strikes directly at any presumed equation between biological sex and the gender roles one happens to be performing. Ullania's reappearance at this juncture—where she is once againsaved by Bradamante from...

The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance

Contributors:: Kenneth J. E. Graham
Publisher:: Cornell University Press 1994
Subjects:: English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism
Literature And Society--England--History--16th Century
Rhetoric--Social Aspects--England--History
Renaissance--England
Rhetoric, Renaissance

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...angry person inhabits a space between incompatible roles that yet dependon each other. Complete identification with...00ADguished it from plaint) is a medieval and early Renaissance formthat is conceptual or abstract in language and vague in...

Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England

Contributors:: Claude J. Summers
Ted-Larry Pebworth
Publisher:: University of Missouri Press 2000
Subjects:: English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism--Congresses
Literature And Society--England--History--17th Century--Congresses
Authors, English--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Biography--Congresses
Social Interaction--England--History--17th Century--Congresses
Community Life--England--History--17th Century--Congresses

Community In Literature--Congresses Social Interaction In Literature--Congresses Renaissance--England--Congresses England--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Congresses
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...fact, there is some testing of gender roles as several ofLanyer's worthy contemporaries...” in Religion and Culture in Renaissance England, ed. Claire McEachern and DeboU...201D (“Our Bodies/Our Texts?Renaissance Women and the Trials of Authorship...

Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy

Contributors:: Sheryl E. Reiss
David G. Wilkins
Publisher:: Truman State University Press 2001
Subjects:: Art, Italian
Women Art Patrons--Italy
Art Patronage--Italy--History
Art, Renaissance--Italy

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...nature offemale patronage in Renaissance Italy. Collectively, the...highly structured patriarchal society.9It is a fundamental premise...theoretical models for gender roles inItalian Renaissance society, although we do hope that...

Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation

Contributors:: William James Bouwsma
Publisher:: Berkeley, University of California Press 1968
Subjects:: Counter-Reformation--Italy--Venice
Renaissance--Italy--Venice
Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797

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...significance of the Renaissance republic, it is necessaryto...historical significance of Renaissance humanism lies in the...intellectual pluralism. Renaissance humanismrecognized that men filled various roles in society or had, in their personallives...

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Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West

Contributors:: Sharon L. Jones
Publisher:: Greenwood Press 2002
Subjects:: American Fiction--African American Authors--History and Criticism
Women and Literature--United States--History--20th Century
West, Dorothy, 1909---Criticism and Interpretation
American Fiction--Women Authors--History and Criticism
Fauset, Jessie Redmon--Criticism and Interpretation

Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and Interpretation American Fiction--20th Century--History and Criticism African American Women in Literature African Americans in Literature Social Classes in Literature Sex Role in Literature Race in Literature Harlem Renaissance
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...Frazier notes, “'Society' among Negroes...trying to maintain their roles in society as more upper-class...Reconstruction and Harlem Renaissance era chronicled the color...about the Blue Vein Society in “TheWife of...