The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Ideas in Context
ISBN-10
1108468152
ISBN-13
9781108468152
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2018
Print length
344 Pages
Weight
536 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.90 x 1.70 cms
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Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset of a heroic modernity: a glorious dawn that ushered in an age of secular individualism, imbued with ruthless vitality and a neo-pagan zest for beauty. The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination is the first comprehensive account of the debates that shaped the German idea of the Renaissance in the seven decades following Jacob Burckhardt's seminal study of 1860. Based on a wealth of archival material and enhanced by more than one hundred illustrations, it provides a new perspective on the historical thought of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and the formation of a concept that is still with us today.
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