Renaissance Florence : a social history /
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
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| Description: | xvii, 674 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5958005 |
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
