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A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe

Author
Vale, M. G. A. (Malcolm Graham Allan)
Published
London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.
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1 online resource (261 pages).
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Contents
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Introduction -- The urban context -- The courtly context -- Hypotheses -- Chapter 1: What was the 'Northern Renaissance'? -- The concept of a renaissance -- The Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- The Renaissance as a historical period -- The concept of a 'Northern Renaissance' and its critics -- Huizinga and the 'autumn' of the Middle Ages -- The post-Huizinga dilemma -- Chapter 2: Realism and the visual arts -- The 'Eyckian revolution' -- Realism in theory and practice, The origins and development of realistic representation -- Realism, landscape and the natural world -- Chapter 3: Humanism in the North -- Renaissance humanism -- Humanism, scholasticism and polemic -- Erasmus and Northern Renaissance humanism -- Humanism and a new Northern Renaissance? -- Chapter 4: The old and the new devotion -- Religion and the Renaissance -- Kempis and the new devotion -- The physical and the spiritual in religious life -- Reform and revival -- Chapter 5: The impact of print -- Renaissance, Reformation and print -- The printed image, and Chapter 4: The old and the new devotion -- Chapter 5: The impact of print -- Chapter 6: Wisdom, folly and the darker vision -- Conclusion -- Index
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ISBN
1350145637
9781350145634 (electronic bk.)
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