- Description
- 1 online resource (341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Summary
- 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 a 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.
- Series Statement
- Ideas in Context ; no. 105
- Uniform Title
- Ideas in Context ; no. 105.
- Subject
- Renaissance in literature
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2015).
- OCLC
- CR9781139583206
- Author
Ruehl, Martin A., author.
- Title
The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930 / Martin A. Ruehl.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Ideas in Context ; no. 105
Ideas in Context ; no. 105.
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- Other Form:
Print version: 9781107036994