Recreation in the Renaissance - Attitudes towards Leisure and Pastime in European Culture 1350 - 1700
In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. This book explores the vocabulary of play and games; the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; the medical discourse on the preservation of health, where amusements were assessed as physical exercise; the moral approach to play; legal treatises on gambling; and the visual representation of leisure.
Austria-Hungary & the Successor States: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present
Narrative histories are presented for Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. A 200-page historical dictionary offers descriptions of events, personalities, institutions, and processes, from Austrian socialist Victor Adler to Prince Alfred Windischgratz, the general who suppressed the Hungarian rebellion of 1849. Chronologies for all the countries covered are also included, along with lists of rulers and statesmen and a selection of historical maps.
France: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present
This accessibly written reference for students and general readers contains alphabetically arranged entries on important people, events, and places in French history from the Renaissance to the present. A sampling of topics includes Leon Blum, the Crimean War, the French Resistance, Huguenots, mile Zola, and the Treaty of Aix-la- Chapelle. The volume also features a short historical narrative by Roberts (history, Fairleigh Dickinson U.), maps, and a chronology of events.
Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in the Renaissance Architecture
Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science.
Other Renaissances: A New Approach to World Literature
Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances beyond the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian and then pan-European Renaissance. With a prologue by Giuseppe Mazzotta about the Italian Renaissance as a "world-making" epistemology, and an afterward by Sander Gilman to summarize the cogent points of the essays, the collection proposes an approach to reframing the Renaissance in which the European Renaissance becomes an imaginative idea, rather than a particular moment in time. Essays cover the Chinese, Harlem, Bengali, Tamil, Maori, Irish, Mexican, Arab, Hebrew, and Cold War Renaissance of the US in the 1950s.
