Contextualizing the Renaissance
Returns to History
Edited by Albert Tricomi
The 28th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, held on 21-22 October 1994 at Binghamton University, featured 33 panel sessions and approximately 150 presentations. The ten essays in this volume consist of the five plenary speakers – leaders in their field – and five panel essays, each of which was reviewed for this volume. The volume comprises a body of work organised around a governing theme – modes of historicisation. Each of the essays demonstrates the practice of or a commentary upon a distinctive historicised criticism. By ‘historicised’ as contrasted with ‘historical’ criticism, it is meant that these essays problematicise, stretch or reconceive traditional historical practices. Challenging the notion that the production of paintings, dramatic texts or even conduct books can be read against a stable historical ground, they show that paintings, works of literature, and treatises not only participate in history but are exemplars of textual instability. The very content of these texts can be shown, in various editions, to change over time – and yet each bears a single, determinate title. In such ways the contributions gathered here all show that they have been affected by ‘the new history’.
- Edited by Albert Tricomi
Other Titles in this Series
Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of Two Popular Preachers
Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444)
Volume 4
Women and Petitioning in the Seventeenth-Century English Revolution
Deference, Difference, and Dissent
Volume 25
Servants of Satan and Masters of Demons
The Spanish Inquisition's Trials for Superstition, Valencia and Barcelona, 1478-1700
Volume 17
Disciplined Dissent in Western Europe, 1200-1600
Political Action between Submission and Defiance
Volume 29
The Ghost of Boccaccio
The Ideology of Martyrdom in the Hebrew Crusade Chronicles and its Jewish and Christian Background
Volume 7
Sedition
The Spread of Controversial Literature and Ideas in France and Scotland, c. 1550-1610
Volume 28
Rituals, Images, and Words
Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Volume 3
Similar Books
Beyond Sovereign Courts
Agents and Practices in Early Modern Spanish and Habsburg Diplomacy
Volume 3
Circulation, Use, Impact
The Consumption of Architectural Books in the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic
Volume 1
Legal Visuality
Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period
Naples as Laboratory / Laboratorium Neapel
Style Options, Artistic Rivalry and Self Fashioning in Neapolitan Baroque Painting / Plurale Stilbildung, Kunstlerkonkurrenz und Self Fashioning in der neapolitanischen Barockmalerei
Power and Women in Southeast and Central Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (1300-1600)
Volume 10
Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 1
Volume 17
Tradition, Interpretation, and Change
Developments in the Liturgy of Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz
Networking through Biography
Constructing Intellectual Junctions in Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic World
Volume 19
Art and Mysticism in Silesia in the Baroque Period
Angelus Silesius, Bernhard Rosa, and Michael Willmann
Building the Presence of the Prince
The Institutions Responsible for the Construction and Management of the Buildings of European Courts (14th-17th centuries)
Volume 14
From Europe to Overseas
Saints, Martyrs, Heroes, Models and Soft Power in an Early Modern Global Perspective
Jheronimus Bosch, Conservation and Restoration
From Former Glory to Changing Appearances (Volume 1: Text, Volume 2: Images)
