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Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.
English literature --- Historicism in literature. --- Literature and history --- Politics and literature --- Renaissance --- History and criticism. --- History --- English Renaissance culture. --- Renaissance literary scholarship. --- gender perspectives. --- historical method. --- political standpoints.
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With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation." Questioning the Italians' presumed capacity for tolerance and civility, he points out that Jews were frequently uprooted and persecuted, and where stable communities did grow up, it was because the hostility of the Christian population had somehow been overcome.After the ghetto was imposed in Venice, Rome, and other Italian cities, Jewish settlement became more concentrated. Bonfil claims that the ghetto experience did more to intensify Jewish self-perception in early modern Europe than the supposed acculturation of the Renaissance. He shows how, paradoxically, ghetto living opened and transformed Jewish culture, hastening secularization and modernization.Bonfil's detailed picture reveals in the Italian Jews a sensitivity and self-awareness that took into account every aspect of the larger society. His inside view of a culture flourishing under stress enables us to understand how identity is perceived through constant interplay-on whatever terms-with the Other.
Jews --- History. --- Italy --- Ethnic relations. --- Jews -- Italy -- History.. --- Italy -- Ethnic relations. --- antisemitism. --- assimilation. --- diaspora. --- emigration. --- ethnicity. --- europe. --- genoa. --- ghetto. --- identity. --- immigration. --- italian jews. --- italian peninsula. --- italian renaissance. --- jewish culture. --- jewish ghetto. --- jewish identity. --- jewish life. --- jewish persecution. --- jewish settlement. --- jews and christians. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- mendicant friars. --- messina. --- migration. --- milan. --- nonfiction. --- palermo. --- propaganda. --- rabbis. --- religion. --- religious persecution. --- renaissance culture. --- renaissance. --- rome. --- secularization. --- sicily. --- synagogue. --- syracuse. --- venice.
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The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences-such as tonal music-began to develop, is also notable for another shift: the displacement of aristocratic music-makers by a new professional class of performers. In this book, Andrew Dell'Antonio looks at a related phenomenon: the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing. Drawing from contemporaneous discourses and other commentaries on music, the visual arts, and Church doctrine, Dell'Antonio links the new ideas about cultivated listening with other intellectual trends of the period: humanistic learning, contemplative listening (or watching) as an active spiritual practice, and musical mysticism as an ideal promoted by the Church as part of the Catholic Reformation.
Music --- History and criticism. --- 17th century italy. --- 17th century music. --- accademia. --- ancient roman history. --- ancient rome culture. --- ancient theology. --- aristocratic music. --- baroque culture. --- catholic reformation. --- catholicism and italy. --- catholicism and music. --- classical music. --- cultural studies. --- european history. --- european music. --- european visual arts. --- history of music. --- history of opera. --- history of religion. --- history of visual arts. --- italian history. --- music and religion. --- music appreciation. --- music. --- musicology. --- performing arts. --- post tridentine rome. --- renaissance culture.
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