Play in Renaissance Italy
From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years' research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, mu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5095-4344-1
- EAN: 9781509543441
- Produktnummer: 36895646
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 530 KB
Über den Autor
Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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