The Renaissance

09 May 2008 14:01

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See also: Early Modern Europe [a superset of the Renaissance]; Erasmus

Recommended:
• Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Peter Burke, The Renaissance Sense of the Past
• Alfred Crosby, The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250--1600
• S. A. Farmer, Syncretism in the West: Pico's 900 These (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems
• Walter Ferguson et al., The Renaissance: Six Essays
• John R. Hale
  • The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance [Pun, and play on Burckhardt, not only intended but appropriate]
  • War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450--1620
• Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance [More a collection of examples illustrating the rise of "bravura consumerism," and how it tied in to all the other fun stuff, than a really new history]
• Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance Thought
• Jay A. Levenson (ed.), Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration [Wonderful survey of world art in the Renaissance, worth the price just for the pictures]
• Erwin Panofsky, Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
• Sergio Rinaldi, "Laura and Petrarch: An Intruiging Case of Cyclical Love Dynamics," SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 58 (1998): 1205--1221
• Wayne Shumaker, The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns

To read:
• Douglas Biow, Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy [Blurb]
• Marie Boas, The Scientific Renaissance, 1450--1630
• William J. Bouwsma, The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550--1640
• Jerry Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
• Malcolm Bull, The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods
• Peter Burke, The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy
• Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth [Blurb]
• Nicholas Cusanus, De Docta Ignorantia [Translation currently in print as Nicholas of Cusa on Learned Ignorance]
• Allen G. Debus, Man and Nature in the Renaissance [Blurb]
• Brendan Dooley, Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics [Blurb, introduction]
• Samuel Y. Edgerton, The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution
• Luba Freedman, The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art
• A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic
• Bertrand Gille, Engineers of the Renaissance
• Richard A. Goldthwaite, Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300--1600
• Anthony Grafton [Writes nicely in the New York Review, dunno about his books]
  • Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation
  • Defenders of the Text
  • Forgers and Critics
  • Giordano's Cosmos
  • Leon Battista Alberti
  • and Nancy Sirasi (eds.), Natural Particulars
• Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton, Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
• Klibansky, Panofsky and Saxl, Saturn and Melancholy
• Kristeller, Marsilio Ficino
• Katherine Crawford Luber, Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance
• Rosamond E. Mack, Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300--1600 [Blurb, intro]
• Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life
• Armando Maggi
  • In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance [Blurb]
  • Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology [Blurb]
• John Martin, Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City [Blurb]
• Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy
• George T. Matthews (ed.), News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe: The Fugger Newsletters
• H. C. Erik Midelfort, Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany
• Edward Muir, The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera [Blurb]
• Charles G. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe [blurb]
• Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen (eds.), Difference & Dissent: Theories of Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• John F. Padgett and Christopher K. Ansell, "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400--1434", American Journal of Sociology 98 (1993): 1259--1319 [JSTOR]
• Erwin Panofsky
  • Perspective as Symbolic Form
  • Renaissance and Reanscences in Western Art
  • Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in Art
• Walter Pater, The Renaissance
• Ingrid D. Rowland, The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome
• George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance [blurb]
• Deborah K. Shuger, Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture
• Jean Seznec, The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Reanissance Humanism and Art
• J. K. J. Thomson, Decline in History: The European Experience
• Dora Thornton, The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy [Review by James Fenton]
• H. R. Trevor-Roper, Renaissance Essays
• Jessica Wolfe, Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature [Blurb]