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Tudor Historical Thought
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F.J. Levy
Tudor Historical Thought is a revealing account of vital changes in intellectual orientation. F.J. Levy’s seminal
work explores the factors – humanism, theology, antiquarianism, Machiavellianism – that brought about
the changes in historical thinking from the time of Caxton to that of Bacon, Raleigh, and Camden.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, chroniclers exemplified the workings of Providence and taught
personal morality; a hundred years later, however, the idea of teaching practical statecraft had been introduced.
The Italian humanists emphasized the political aspects of man, and made the active citizen rather
than the cloistered monk their ideal. That citizen needed guidance, and it was the duty of the historian to
supply it. Questions of politics, which had been important for nearly half a century, suddenly were placed
at the centre, and with that a new kind of history writing appeared in England.
(RSART 15) 320 pp / 6 x 9 / 2004
Paper 978-0-8020-3775-6 $32.95 (£23.99)
The Renaissance in Historical Thought
Wallace K. Ferguson
Originally published in 1948, Wallace K. Ferguson’s The Renaissance in Historical Thought is a key piece
of scholarship on Renaissance historiography. Ferguson examines how the Renaissance has been viewed
from successive historical and national viewpoints, and by canonical thinkers over the centuries, including
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire and Jacob Burckhardt.
(RSART 16) 450 pp / 6 x 9 / 2006
Paper ISBN 978-0-8020-9415-5 $32.95 (£23.99)
The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390–1460
Lauro Martines
Lauro Martines’s exhaustive search of manuscript material in the state archives of Florence is the basis for a
fascinating portrayal of representative humanists of the period. The Social World of the Florentine Humanists
explores the wealth, family tradition, civic prominence, and intellectual achievements of these individuals
while assessing the attitudes of other Florentines towards them. Martines demonstrates that humanists
tended to be wealthy educated men from important families, challenging longheld assumptions about the
status of humanists in that society.
First published in 1963, this groundbreaking study provides a detailed picture of the social structure
of Florence in the Quattrocento that influenced a generation of scholars and illuminated a complex and
multifaceted world.
(RSART 17) 440 pp / 6 x 9 / 2011
Paper ISBN 978-1-4426-1182-5 $35.00 (£24.99)
The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist
Projects and Patrons, Workshop and Art Market
Martin Wackernagel
Translated by Alison Luchs
First published in German in 1938 and later translated into English, this classic of Italian Renaissance historiography
centres on the relationship between Florentine art and the conditions under which it was created. In
rich detail, Martin Wackernagel explores the impact of patronage and function, widespread demand for
art, workshop techniques, and business practices on artists’ lives and the results they achieved.
Wackernagel stresses the changing roles of commissions and patrons in the late fourteenth to the early
fifteenth centuries, from small-scale enterprise under Lorenzo de Medici to the large-scale development of
major Florentine monuments. Through this, he highlights the development of major civic and religious
artistic complexes such as the Palazzo Vecchio, the Cathedral and Baptistery, and the convent of Santa
Maria Novella. This volume also features a biography of the author and an essay on important later publications
related to Wackernagel’s themes and arguments.
(RSART 18) 488 pp / 6 x 9 / 2011
Paper ISBN 978-1-4426-1184-9 $39.95 (£27.99)
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