The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy

Author：Peter Burke

Paperback: 312 pages

Publisher: Polity Press; 3rd Edition edition (6 Dec. 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0745648266

ISBN-13: 978-0745648262

Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 2.6 x 22.8 cm

书籍简介

在这部出色和广受好评的著作里，彼得·伯克展示了意大利文艺复兴时期的社会和文化史。他讨论了15和16世纪存在的社会和政治机构，并剖析了这个以非凡艺术创造力而著称的时期的特殊思维方式和审美方式。

伯克在本书中采用了独特的社会学方法，他不仅关注米开朗基罗、拉斐尔、莱奥纳尔多·达.芬奇等人精美绝伦的作品，同时还关注这些“文化精英”的社会背景、招募方式和生存手段。如此，他为我们理解意大利文艺复兴，理解文化与社会之间的复杂关系做出了重要贡献。

新修订的第三版，全书配有丰富的插图。本书将是史学家、社会学家和任何一位对欧洲历史上富有创造力时期之一的（文艺复兴）感兴趣的人值得一读的好书。

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. 

Developing a distinctive sociological approach, Peter Burke is concerned with not only the finished works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and others, but also with the social background, patterns of recruitment and means of subsistence of this cultural elite . New to this edition is a fully revised introduction focusing on what Burke terms the domestic turn in Renaissance studies and discussing the relation of the Renaissance to global trends. He thus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian Renaissance, and to our comprehension of the complex relations between culture and society. 

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition is richly illustrated throughout. It will have a wide appeal among historians, sociologists and anyone interested in one of the most creative periods of European history.

作者简介

彼得·伯克（Peter Burke），英国历史学家，当代知名新文化史家。曾执教苏塞克斯大学、剑桥大学，现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授及伊曼纽学院（Emmanuel College）研究员。研究专长为西方史学思想和欧洲文化史。著作宏富，包括《图像证史》《语言的文化史——近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》《历史写作的新视野》《20世纪的历史与历史学家》《什么是文化史》《文化史的风景》《意大利文艺复兴》等数十种，作品被翻译成三十多种文字出版。