Florence and Beyond
Culture, Society, and Politics in Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9804180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Jurdjevic (University of Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 508 |
| Pages | 690-692 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cep093 |
| OpenAlex | W2046312278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Florence and Beyond is a hefty Festschrift to John Najémy, one of the leading historians of Florentine political culture during the Renaissance. Consistent with the volume's title, the twenty-five essays generally focus on Florentine history, with some excursions into papal Rome and republican Venice, and span the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The editors have done a particularly impressive job of integrating and organising a wide range of essays around the big themes, questions and arguments in Najémy's scholarship. Hence, in spite of its size, the volume has a conceptual unity not always present in large collaborative projects. The essays fall into the broad categories of political institutions, patronage, political languages, and the structure and culture of the Renaissance family. Parts I and II—‘Orientations’ and ‘Culture’—feature several essays that grapple with the legacy of the Baron thesis, a fitting opening since Hans Baron's controversial vision was frequently a point of departure for Najémy's thoughts on the genesis and development of Florentine republicanism. After a retrospective essay by Gene Brucker on the Uffizi archives, James Blythe and John La Salle discuss an unpublished Baronian manuscript on early republican themes in the writing of Ptolemy of Lucca. Anthony Molho advances a correlation between Baron's acculturation to the United States and the key arguments he advanced in The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (1966; rev. ante, lxxxii [1967], 831), while William Hyland examines a Baronian contrast in Florentine religious culture between the engaged docta pietas of Ambrogio Traversari and the contemplative scriptural conservatism of John-Jerome of Prague. Nancy Bisaha examines Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's efforts to rally European rulers to reclaim Constantinople from the Ottomans, locating his interpretation of that conflict in the Baronian themes of high culture and civilisation threatened by tyranny, darkness and ignorance. Saundra Weddle draws attention to the civic themes and humanist interests at work in Marco di Bartolommeo Rustici's ostensibly devotional account of his journey to Jerusalem
Art · Civilization · Early Modern Europe · Honour · Literature · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Classics · History · Law · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2016 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |