Hybrid Renaissance : culture, language, architecture

Author/Creator:

Burke, Peter, 1937- author

Publication/Creation:

Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, an imprint of the Central European University Limited Liability Company, 2016

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Hybrid Renaissance : culture, language, architecture / Peter Burke

Series Titles:

The Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series at Central European University, Budapest
Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Renaissance--Italy
Cultural fusion--Italy--History
Cities and towns--Italy--History
Borderlands--Italy--History
Renaissance
Cultural fusion--History
Italy--Court and courtiers--History
Italy--Civilization--1268-1559

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: An expanding renaissance -- The idea of hybridity -- The geography of hybridity -- Translating architecture -- Hybrid arts -- Hybrid languages -- Hybrid literatures -- Music, law and humanism -- Hybrid philosophies -- Translating gods -- Coda: Counter-hybridization.

Summary:

"Hybrid Renaissance presents the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe as an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are 'hybridization' and 'Renaissance.' Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that emerges from the combination of diverse older elements. The term 'hybridization' is preferable to 'hybridity' because it refers to a process rather than to a state, and also because it encourages the writer and the readers alike to think in terms of more or less rather than of presence versus absence. The book begins with a discussion of the concept of cultural hybridity and a cluster of other concepts related to it. Then comes a geography of hybridity, focusing on three locales: courts, major cities (whether ports or capitals) and frontiers. There follow six chapters about the hybrid Renaissance in different fields: architecture, painting and sculpture, languages, literatures, music, philosophy and law and finally religion. The essay concludes with a brief account of attempts to resist hybridization or to purify cultures or domains from what was already hybridized"--Provided by publisher.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (xi, 271 pages)

General Note:

"Revised and expanded version of the Natalie Davis lectures for 2013, delivered at the Central European University in Budapest"--Introduction.

Local Note:

Available to current Emory University students, faculty and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936676232102486

ISBN:

9789633860885
9633860881

OCLC Number:

953694722