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Play in Renaissance Italy - Couverture souple

Burke, Peter

 
9781509543434: Play in Renaissance Italy
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1509543430 ISBN 13 : 9781509543434
Editeur : Polity Press, 2021

Synopsis

From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years' research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was tamed.

This entertaining study of play reveals much about the culture of Renaissance Italy, and illuminates an essential element in human life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509543430
ISBN 13 
9781509543434
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
120
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Personne responsable
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