European University Institute Library

Rituals of politics and culture in early modern Europe, essays in honour of Edward Muir, edited by Mark Jurdjevic and Rolf Strøm-Olsen

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Rituals of politics and culture in early modern Europe

bibliography

948552642

edited by Mark Jurdjevic and Rolf Strøm-Olsen

Essays and studies, 39

essays in honour of Edward Muir

"This volume celebrates the considerable contributions of Edward Muir to the history of Renaissance Italy and early modern Europe. In keeping with Muir's signature interdisciplinary approach to history, the fifteen essays in this volume include contributions on the ritual dimensions of early modern politics, religion, literature, and art and range from the Venetian and Florentine capitals of Renaissance high culture to Germany, Spain, the Low Countries, and China. Janus-faced, like all good historians, the volume looks forward and back, combining distinguished senior scholars and new voices with venerable debates and new fields. In doing so, the collection testifies to the vibrancy, vitality, and significance of early modern studies today and the degree to which Muir's scholarship over the past thirty years has powerfully fueled the field's dynamism."--, Provided by publisher

Introduction / Mark Jurdjevic and Rolf Strøm-Olsen -- Edward Muir: a bibliography -- Ritual geographies in Venice's Mediterranean empire / Patricia Fortini Brown -- The multiple meanings of ritual: orations and the tensions of Venetian empire / Monique O'Connell -- Burning the candle at both ends: Candle making as state making in Renaissance Siena and Florence / Michael Paul Martoccio -- The Certame Coronario as performative ritual / Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- Sex crimes and rituals of redemption in civic humanist Florence / John M. Najemy -- Imagining love, lust, and virtù in Boccaccio and the Italian Renaissance / Guido Ruggiero -- The history of a story: Manetti's "La Novella del Grasso legnaiuolo" / Albert Russell Ascoli -- Real presences: literature and artifacts in early modern Italy / Antonio Ricci -- Deep play in Renaissance Italy / Nicholas Scott Baker -- Apollo in the counter-Reformation: Giovan Battista Andreini, literary authority, and the Commedia dell' arte / Sarah Gwyneth Ross -- Confraternities and rural devotion in the Veneto / Celeste McNamara -- Taking belief seriously? An early modern Catholic perspective / Ethan H. Shagan -- French history as Burgundian historiography in the Histoires of Thomas Basin / Rolf Strøm-Olsen -- "With covered faces": Emotion rituals in early modern Germany / Susan C. Karant-Nunn -- Goddess of the seas: ritual in Sino-Portuguese maritime history / Ronnie Po-chia Hsia