Main entry:

Burke, Peter, 1937- author.

Title & Author:

Hybrid Renaissance : culture, language, architecture / Peter Burke.

Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2016.

Description:

xii, 271 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

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

Notes:
"Revised and expanded version of the Natalie Davis lectures for 2013, delivered at the Central European University in Budapest"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index.
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.

ISBN:

9789633860878 (hardbound ; alkaline paper)
9633860873 (hardbound ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Renaissance Italy.
Cultural fusion Italy History.
Cities and towns Italy History.
Borderlands Italy History.
Renaissance.
Cultural fusion History.
Renaissance Italie.
Double appartenance (Sciences sociales) Italie Histoire.
Villes Italie Histoire.
Régions frontalières Italie Histoire.
Double appartenance (Sciences sociales) Histoire.
15.70 history of Europe.
Borderlands.
Cities and towns.
Civilization.
Courts and courtiers.
Cultural fusion.
Italy Court and courtiers History.
Italy Civilization 1268-1559.
Italie Civilisation 1268-1559.
Italy.

Form/genre:

Lectures.
History.

Added entries:

Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294262
Call No.: BIB 239684
Status: Available