A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance [Paperback]

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• Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive.
  
• Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective.
  
• Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite.
  
• Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are integrated into the analysis.

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm 1
Guido Rumiero

PART I THE COURSE of RENAISSANCEE EVENTS 21

1 The Italian Renaissance 23
Gene Brucker

2 The European Renaissance 39
Randolph Starn

3 The Renaissance and the Middle East 55
Linda T. Darling

4 The Renaissance World from the West 70
Matthew Restall

5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance 88
Peter Burke

PART 11 THE WORLDS AND WAYS OF POWER 105

6 Governments and Bureaucracies 107
Edward Muir

7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe 124
James R. Farr

8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model 139
Gregory Hanlon

9 Manners, Courts, and Civility 156