|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II
Catholic University of America Press, 2014 eISBN: 978-0-8132-2682-8 | Paper: 978-0-8132-2681-1 Library of Congress Classification BX1308.W45 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 282.092
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle. |
 Reference metadata exposed for Zotero via unAPI. | |
Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Catholic University of America Press, 2014
eISBN: 978-0-8132-2682-8
Paper: 978-0-8132-2681-1
eISBN: 978-0-8132-2682-8
Paper: 978-0-8132-2681-1
Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
