Hybrid Renaissance : culture, language, architecture

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Label

Hybrid Renaissance : culture, language, architecture

Title remainder

culture, language, architecture

Statement of responsibility

Peter Burke

Creator

• Burke, Peter, 1937-

Subject

• Borderlands
• Borderlands -- Italy -- History
• Cities and towns
• Cities and towns -- Italy -- History
• Civilization
• Courts and courtiers
• Cultural fusion
• Cultural fusion -- History
• Cultural fusion -- Italy -- History
• History
• Italy
• Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559
• Italy -- Court and courtiers | History
• Renaissance
• Renaissance
• Renaissance -- Italy
• 1268-1559

Genre

• History

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series

Cataloging source

P@U

Dewey number

945/.05

Index

index present

LC call number

DG533

LC item number

.B867 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series at Central European University, Budapest