Research Catalog

Title

Florence in the early modern world : new perspectives / edited by Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baker, Nicholas Scott, 1975-
• Maxson, Brian, 1978-

Description

xii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of Florence remains unique. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of early modern cities and the Renaissance"--

Series Statement

Themes in medieval and early modern history

Uniform Title

Themes in medieval and early modern history.

Subjects

• Renaissance
• Italy > Florence
• 1421-1737
• Politics and government
• History
• Diplomatic relations
• Renaissance > Italy > Florence
• Florence (Italy) > Politics and government > 1421-1737
• Florence (Italy) > History > 1421-1737
• Florence (Italy) > Foreign relations > 1421-1737

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Where in the world is Renaissance Florence? challenges for the history of the city after the global turn / Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- Taking architectural theory on the road: the sliding scales of the Florentine traveler / Niall Atkinson -- "Tutto il mondo è paese": locating Florence in premodern Eurasian commerce / Nicholas Scott Baker -- Mapping gendered labor in the textile industry of early modern Florence / Nicholas Terpstra -- Shaping the city and the landscape: politics, public space, and innovation under Ferdinando I de' Medici / Marta Caroscio -- Nelle Parti di Romagna: the role and influence of the Apennine lords in Italian Renaissance politics / Luciano Piffanelli -- The advantages of stability: Medici Tuscany's ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean / Brian Brege -- The Medici, maritime empire, and the enduring legacy of the Cavalieri di Santo Stefano / Katherine Poole-Jones -- Poggio's beginnings at the Papal Curia: the Florentine brain drain and the fashioning of the humanist movement / Clémence Revest -- The myth of the Renaissance bubble: international culture and regional politics in fifteenth-century Florence / Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- New perspectives on Patria: the Andreini performance of Florentine citizenship / Sarah Gwyneth Ross.

Call Number

JFE 19-11576

ISBN

• 9781138313309
• 1138313300
• 9781138313316
• 1138313319
• 9780429457685 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019009734
• 40029323085

OCLC

1083271215

Title

Florence in the early modern world : new perspectives / edited by Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Themes in medieval and early modern history

Themes in medieval and early modern history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1421-1737

Added Author

Baker, Nicholas Scott, 1975- editor.

Maxson, Brian, 1978- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40029323085

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11576