| The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930 Contributor(s): Ruehl, Martin A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108468152 ISBN-13: 9781108468152 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - History | Europe - Italy - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 945.05 |
| Series: Ideas in Context |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9" (1.01 lbs) 342 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset of a heroic modernity: a glorious dawn that ushered in an age of secular individualism, imbued with ruthless vitality and a neo-pagan zest for beauty. The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination is the first comprehensive account of the debates that shaped the German idea of the Renaissance in the seven decades following Jacob Burckhardt's seminal study of 1860. Based on a wealth of archival material and enhanced by more than one hundred illustrations, it provides a new perspective on the historical thought of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and the formation of a concept that is still with us today. |