
Ebook: Hybrid Renaissance : Culture, Language, Architecture
Author: Peter Burke
- Genre: Art
- Tags: Early Modern Europe cross-cultural influences and relations history of art hybridity 16th century European civilization cultural fusion Italy in Renaissance
- Series: The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Central European University Press
- City: Budapest
- Language: English
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Hybrid Renaissance presents the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe as an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are 'hybridization' and 'Renaissance.' Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that emerges from the combination of diverse older elements. The term 'hybridization' is preferable to 'hybridity' because it refers to a process rather than to a state, and also because it encourages the writer and the readers alike to think in terms of more or less rather than of presence versus absence. The book begins with a discussion of the concept of cultural hybridity and a cluster of other concepts related to it. Then comes a geography of hybridity, focusing on three locales: courts, major cities (whether ports or capitals) and frontiers. There follow six chapters about the hybrid Renaissance in different fields: architecture, painting and sculpture, languages, literatures, music, philosophy and law and finally religion. The essay concludes with a brief account of attempts to resist hybridization or to purify cultures or domains from what was already hybridized.
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