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Urban Life in the Renaissance

Susan Zimmerman and Ronald F. E. Weissman, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1989. 303 pages, index.

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Each essay in this volume analyzes an urban phenomenon within a particular geographical and chronological framework ranging from fifteenth- through seventeenth-century Italy, France, England, Holland and Spain. Collectively, these studies probe overlapping themes concerning Renaissance urban culture and urban identity.

Contents:

• Susan Zimmerman and Ronald F. E. Weissman, "Introduction"
• James S. Ackerman and Myra Nan Rosenfeld, "Social Stratification in Renaissance Urban Planning"
  
• Nicholas Adams, "The Construction of Pienza (1459-1464) and the Consequences of Renovatio"
  
• Barbara Diefendorf, "Houses Divided: Religious Schism in Sixteenth-Century Parisian Families"
  
• Roger Chartier, "Leisure and Sociability: Reading Aloud in Early Modern Europe"
  
• Werner L. Gundersheimer, "Trickery, Gender, and Power: The Discorsi of Annibale Romei"
  
• Howard Mayer Brown, "Minstrels and Their Repertory in Fifteenth-Century France: Music in an Urban Environment"
  
• Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.,"History, Politics, and the Portrait of a City: Vermeer's View of Delft"
  
• David Harris Sacks, "Celebrating Authority in Bristol, 1475-1640"
  
• Sydel Silverman, "The Palio of Siena: Game, Ritual, or Politics?"
  
• Richard C. McCoy, "'Thou Idol Ceremony': Elizabeth I, The Henriad, and the Rites of the English Monarchy"
  
• Ronald F.E.Weissman, "The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Social Relations, Individualism, and Identity in Renaissance Florence"
  
• Thomas M. Greene, "Ceremonial Play and Parody in the Renaissance"