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Oxford Historical Monographs

The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe

René of Anjou in Italy

Margolis, Oren (Departmental Lecturer in Early Modern History, Departmental Lecturer in Early Modern History, Somerville College, Oxford)

The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe

Oxford Historical Monographs

The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe

René of Anjou in Italy

Oxford Historical Monographs: The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe

 

A study of René of Anjou, a French prince and exiled king of Naples, and how he engaged his Italian network in a programme of cultural politics conducted with an eye towards a return to power in the peninsula, this volume seeks to understand the politics of culture in early Renaissance Europe through the lens of Italian humanism and art.


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The poet-king without a throne appears here in an entirely new light. In The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe: René of Anjou in Italy, Oren Margolis explores how this French prince and exiled king of Naples (1409-1480) engaged his Italian network in a programme of cultural politics conducted with an eye towards a return to power in the peninsula. Built on a series of original interpretations of humanistic and artistic material (chiefly Latin orations and illuminated manuscripts of classical texts), this is also a case study for a 'diplomatic approach' to culture. It recasts its source base as a form of high-level communication for a hyper-literate elite of those who could read the works created by humanist and artistic agents for their constituent parts: the potent words or phrases and relevant classical allusions; the channels through which a given work was commissioned or transmitted; and then the nature of the network gathered around a political agenda.

This is a volume for all those interested in the politics and culture of later medieval Europe and Renaissance Italy: the kings of France and dukes of Burgundy, the Medici, the Sforza, the Venetians, and their armies, ambassadors, and adversaries all appear here; so do Giovanni Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Guarino of Verona, and their respective intellectual and artistic circles. Emerging from it is a challenge to conventional interpretations of the politics of humanism, and a new vision of the Quattrocento: a century in which the Italian Renaissance began its takeover of Europe, but in which Renaissance culture was itself shaped by its European political, social, and diplomatic context.


ISBN
9780198769323
Pagina's
240
Verschenen
Serie
Oxford Historical Monographs
NUR
685
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
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Engels
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OUP Oxford

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