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Author Burke, Peter, 1937- author

Title Hybrid Renaissance : culture, language, architecture / Peter Burke
Published Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, an imprint of the Central European University Limited Liability Company, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 271 pages)
Series The Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series at Central European University, Budapest
Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.
Contents Introduction: An expanding renaissance -- The idea of hybridity -- The geography of hybridity -- Translating architecture -- Hybrid arts -- Hybrid languages -- Hybrid literatures -- Music, law and humanism -- Hybrid philosophies -- Translating gods -- Coda: Counter-hybridization
Summary "Hybrid Renaissance presents the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe as an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are 'hybridization' and 'Renaissance.' Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that emerges from the combination of diverse older elements. The term 'hybridization' is preferable to 'hybridity' because it refers to a process rather than to a state, and also because it encourages the writer and the readers alike to think in terms of more or less rather than of presence versus absence. The book begins with a discussion of the concept of cultural hybridity and a cluster of other concepts related to it. Then comes a geography of hybridity, focusing on three locales: courts, major cities (whether ports or capitals) and frontiers. There follow six chapters about the hybrid Renaissance in different fields: architecture, painting and sculpture, languages, literatures, music, philosophy and law and finally religion. The essay concludes with a brief account of attempts to resist hybridization or to purify cultures or domains from what was already hybridized"--Provided by publisher
Notes "Revised and expanded version of the Natalie Davis lectures for 2013, delivered at the Central European University in Budapest"--Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Renaissance -- Italy
Cultural fusion -- Italy -- History
Cities and towns -- Italy -- History
Borderlands -- Italy -- History
Renaissance.
Cultural fusion -- History
Renaissance.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Renaissance.
Borderlands
Cities and towns
Civilization
Courts and courtiers
Cultural fusion
Renaissance
SUBJECT Italy -- Court and courtiers -- History
Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068888
Subject Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789633860885
9633860881