Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
Title | Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Rosalind Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780521786638 |
This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.
The Clothing of the Renaissance World
Title | The Clothing of the Renaissance World PDF eBook |
Author | Cesare Vecellio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780500514269 |
A tour de force of scholarship and book production: an essential reference for anyone interested in costume history, Renaissance studies, theater, and ethnography.
Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
Title | Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Margreta de Grazia |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1996-02-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521455893 |
This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations.
Worldly Goods
Title | Worldly Goods PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Jardine |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780393318661 |
'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were being fought over silks and spices, and who should control international trade.
The Culture of Clothing
Title | The Culture of Clothing PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Roche |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1996-10-10 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780521574549 |
Newly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent and the kind of clothes they wore. His essential argument is that there was a 'vestimentary revolution' in the later eighteenth century as all sections of the population became caught up in the world of fashion and fast-moving consumption.
Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
Title | Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Christiane Klapisch-Zuber |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1987-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226439267 |
English translations of the author's most important articles.
Shakespearean Negotiations
Title | Shakespearean Negotiations PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780520061606 |
Stephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.