A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.

• 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.

Content:
Chapter 1 The Italian Renaissance (pages 21–38): Gene Brucker
Chapter 2 The European Renaissance (pages 39–54): Randolph Starn
Chapter 3 The Renaissance and the Middle East (pages 55–69): Linda T. Darling
Chapter 4 The Renaissance World from the West (pages 70–87): Matthew Restall
Chapter 5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance (pages 88–103): Peter Burke
Chapter 6 Governments and Bureaucracies (pages 104–123): Edward Muir
Chapter 7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe (pages 124–138): James R. Farr
Chapter 8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model (pages 139–155): Gregory Hanlon
Chapter 9 Manners, Courts, and Civility (pages 156–171): Robert Muchembled
Chapter 10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World (pages 172–187): Joanne M. Ferraro
Chapter 11 Gender (pages 188–207): Elissa B. Weaver
Chapter 12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism (pages 208–224): John Jeffries Martin
Chapter 13 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes (pages 225–242): Matthew Vester
Chapter 14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes (pages 243–258): James S. Amelang
Chapter 15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy (pages 259–278): Karl Appuhn
Chapter 16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy (pages 279–295): John A. Marino
Chapter 17 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World (pages 297–315): David C. Gentilcore
Chapter 18 High Culture (pages 316–332): Ingrid D. Rowland
Chapter 19 Religious Cultures (pages 333–348): R. Po?Chia Hsia
Chapter 20 Art (pages 334–365): Loren Partridge
Chapter 21 Literature (pages 366–383): James Grantham Turner
Chapter 22 Political Ideas (pages 384–402): John M. Najemy
Chapter 23 The Scientific Renaissance (pages 403–424): William Eamon
Chapter 24 Plague, Disease, and Hunger (pages 425–443): Mary Lindemann
Chapter 25 Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age (pages 444–459): Linda Woodbridge
Chapter 26 Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World (pages 460–474): Thomas F. Arnold
Chapter 27 Witchcraft and Magic (pages 475–490): Guido Ruggiero
Chapter 28 The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance (pages 491–505): Ian Frederick Moulton