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The making of modernity : the Italian Renaissance in the German historical imagination, 1860-1930

Title: The making of modernity : the Italian Renaissance in the German historical imagination, 1860-1930 / Martin A. Ruehl.
Author: Ruehl, Martin A., 1970-
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description

xiii, 317 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Ideas in context

Uniform Title

Ideas in context

Alternative Title

Italian Renaissance in the German historical imagination, 1860-1930

Subject

Contents

Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern -- "An uncanny re-awakening" : Nietzsche's renascence of the Renaissance out of the spirit of Jacob Burckhardt -- Death in Florence : Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus -- "The first modern man on the throne" : Reich, race, and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second -- The Renaissance reclaimed : Burgerhumanismus and the forging of the Baron thesis -- Conclusion: The waning of the Renaissance : Death and after-life of an idea.

Call Number

JFE 16-29

ISBN

9781107036994 (hardback)
1107036992 (hardback)

LCCN

2014040270

OCLC

900634278

Author

Ruehl, Martin A., 1970-

Title

The making of modernity : the Italian Renaissance in the German historical imagination, 1860-1930 / Martin A. Ruehl.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ideas in context

Research Call Number

JFE 16-29

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