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This volume offers a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the Renaissance. The Renaissance has rarely been considered an important moment in the history of democracy. Nonetheless, as this volume shows, this period may be seen as a "democratic laboratory" in many, often unexpected, ways. The classicizing cultural movement known as humanism, which spread throughout Europe and beyond in this period, had the effect of vastly enhancing knowledge of the classical democratic and republican traditions. Greek history and philosophy, including the story of Athenian democracy, became fully known in the West for the first time in the postclassical world. Partly as a result of this, the period from 1400 to 1650 witnessed rich and historically important debates on some of the enduring political issues at the heart of democratic culture: issues of sovereignty, of liberty, of citizenship, of the common good, of the place of religion in government.At the same time, the introduction of printing, and the emergence of a flourishing, proto-journalistic news culture, laid the basis for something that recognizably anticipates the modern "public sphere." The expansion of transnational and transcontinental exchange, in what has been called the "age of encounters," gave a new urgency to discussions of religious and ethnic diversity. Gender, too, was a matter of intense debate in this period, as was, specifically, the question of women's relation to political agency and power.This volume explores these developments in ten chapters devoted to the notions of sovereignty, liberty, and the "common good"; the relation of state and household; religion and political obligation; gender and citizenship; ethnicity, diversity, and nationalism; democratic crises and civil resistance; international relations; and the development of news culture. It makes a pressing case for a fresh understanding of modern democracy's deep roots.

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Virginia Cox is Honorary Professor of Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK.Joanne Paul is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, UK.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsSeries PrefaceIntroductionVirginia Cox (New York University, USA) and Joanne Paul (University of Sussex, UK)1. SovereigntyDan Lee (University of California, Berkeley, USA)2. Liberty and the Rule of LawPeter Stacey (University of California, LA, USA)3. The "Common Good"Simone Maghenzani (Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK)4. Economic and Social DemocracyAnna K. Becker (Aarhus University, Denmark)5. Religion and the Principles of Political ObligationEthan H. Shagan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)6. Citizenship and GenderVirginia Cox (New York University, USA)7. Ethnicity, Race and NationalismPeter Stamatov (Yale University, USA)8. Democratic Crises, Revolutions and Civil ResistanceDavid Ragazzoni (Columbia University, USA)9. International RelationsKurosh Meshkat (BL-Qatar Foundation Project)10. Beyond the Polis, Transforming SovereigntyKirsty Rolfe (Leiden University, Netherlands)NotesBibliographyIndex

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A wide-ranging overview of the cultural history of democracy in the Renaissance.

Details ISBN1350440337 Format Paperback Author Eugenio Biagini Pages 288 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Edition Description NIP Series The Cultural Histories Series Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781350440333 Publication Date 2024-02-08 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Joanne Paul Illustrations 30 bw illus Audience Tertiary & Higher Education UK Release Date 2024-02-08 DEWEY 321.809 ISBN-10 1350440337 AU Release Date 2024-02-07 We've got this

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