Renaissance Florence : a social history /

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Other Authors / Creators:Crum, Roger J.
Paoletti, John T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Florence - The Dynamics of Space in a Renaissance City
  • The Theater of Florence
  • 1. Florentine Politics and Urban Spaces
  • 2. Theaters of Everyday Life
  • The Public Realm
  • 3. The Florentine Piazza della Signoria as Practiced Place
  • 4. Structuring Communal History through Repeated Metaphors of Rule
  • 5. Corporate Beneficence and Historical Narratives of Communal Well-Being
  • 6. The Spaces of Plebeian Ritual and the Boundaries of Transgression
  • 7. Ritual Trading at the Florentine Wool-Cloth Botteghe
  • Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors
  • 8. Neighborhood as Microcosm
  • 9. The Palace and Villa as Spaces of Patrician Self-Definition
  • 10. "...Full of People of Every Sort": The Domestic Interior
  • Men and Women
  • 11. Mean Streets, Familiar Streets, or The Fat Woodcarver and the Masculine Spaces of Renaissance Florence
  • 12. Did Women Have a Space?
  • The Spaces of the Spiritual
  • 13. Sacred Place and Liturgical Space: Florence's Renaissance Churches
  • 14. Memorial Chapels in Churches: The Privatization and Transformation of Sacred Spaces
  • 15. The Aural Space of the Sacred in Renaissance Florence
  • 16. Identity and Alliance: Urban Presence, Spatial Privilege, and Florentine Renaissance Convents
  • Across Space and Time
  • 17. The Workshop as the Space of Collaborative Artistic Production
  • 18. The Replicated Image in Florence, 1300-1600
  • 19. From the Workshop to the Academy: The Emergence of the Artist in Renaissance Florence
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index