The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive
introduction to Italian Renaissance society, intellectual history, and politics, with each contribution reflecting
the most recent innovations in the way that historians view and study the period.
Table of Contents
1. Education and the Emergence of a Literate Society
2. Humanism and the Lure of Antiquity
3. Religion and the Church
4. Family and Marriage: a Socio-Legal Perspective
5. Bodies, Disease, and Society
6. The Economy: Work and Wealth
7. The Popolo
8. The Power of the Elites: Family, Patronage, and the State
9. Governments and Governance
10. The South
11. Representations of Power
12. Rethinking the Renaissance in the Aftermath of Italy's Crisis
