A Renaissance Reclaimed Bauer Ditchfield Hardback OUP Oxford 9780197267325

A Renaissance ReclaimedJacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered\nAuthor(s): Stefan Bauer, Simon Ditchfield\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780197267325, 978-0197267325\nSynopsis\nA Renaissance Reclaimed brings together an international team of historians of scholarship, politics, religion, literature, and ideas, whose expertise straddles the Renaissance and nineteenth century, to evaluate the achievement and legacy of the most famous work by the Swiss 'father of cultural history' Jacob Burckhardt [tel]: The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy [tel]. The capaciousness of Burckhardt's vision, which embraced fashion, false teeth, and hair extensions as well as the 'State as a work of art', development of the individual, revival of antiquity, discovery of the world and of man, society and festivals, and morality and religion, has never been equalled. Insights in this vo.