Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
Robert Muchembled, Université de Paris XIII
William Monter, Northwestern University, Illinois
£53.00
GBPCultural exchange, the dynamic give and take between two or more cultures, has become a distinguishing feature of modern Europe. This was already an important feature to the elites of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and it played a central role in their fashioning of self. The cultures these elites exchanged and often integrated with their own were both material and immaterial; they included palaces, city-dwellings, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, dresses and jewellery, but also gestures, ways of sitting, standing and walking, and dances. In this innovative and well-illustrated 2007 volume all this lively exchange is traced from Bruges, Augsburg and Istanbul to Italy; from Italy to Paris, Amsterdam, Dresden, Novgorod and Moscow; and even from Brazil to Rouen. This volume, which reveals how a first European identity was forged, will appeal to cultural and art historians, as well as social and cultural anthropologists.
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'This finely composed book contains a wealth of information not only for scholars of Renaissance and early modern studies, but for anyone interested in a Europe still under construction today.' Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire
Product details
January 2013Paperback
9781107412804
466 pages
229 × 152 × 24 mm
0.62kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Cultural exchange and cultural transfer in early modern Europe: a theoretical perspective and examples Bernd Roeck
- 1. The Baltic ceramic market 1200–1600: measuring Hanseatic cultural transfer and resistance David Gaimster
- 2. Between Italy and Moscow: cultural crossroads and the culture of exchange Evelyn Welch
- 3. Netherlandish painting and early Renaissance Italy: artistic rapports in a historiographical perspective Bernard Aikema
- 4. Cultural transfer between Venice and the Ottomans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Deborah Howard
- 5. Wandering objects, migrating artists: the appropriation of Italian Renaissance art by German courts in the sixteenth century Barbara Marx
- 6. The dressed body: the moulding of identities in sixteenth-century France Isabelle Paresys
- 7. Clothing and cultural exchange in Renaissance Germany Ulinka Rublack
- 8. Gesture and comportment: diversity and uniformity Dilwyn Knox
- 9. The exchange of dance cultures in Renaissance Europe: Italy, France and abroad Marina Nordera
- 10. Dancing in the Dutch Republic: the uses of bodily memory Herman Roodenburg
- 11. Imaginations of overseas cultures in Western European pageants, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries Johan Verberckmoes
- Bibliography.
