Emperor to Emperor - Italy before the Renaissance, [Mediaeval Italy was the crucible of modern western civilization when the three great nations of the world, the Greeks, the Saracens and the Franks, encountered one another on the theatre of Italy, the consequence of which, enriched by the heritage of ancient Rome, was the Italian Renaissance],

Burman, Edward,

ISBN 10: 0094694907 / ISBN 13: 9780094694903

Edité par Constable, London, 1991., 1991

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first edition, 8vo, 288pp, well illustrated throughout by 57 photographs (mainly by the author), and 13 figures in text drawn by John Mitchell, Index of people and places, publisher's boards, title silver on spine, dw colour-illustrated on the front by the interior of San Pellegrino at Bominaco (with the poor-man's version of the paintings in the Sistine chapel), and on the back by a detail of a thirteenth-century fresco of the Last Supper, near fine.

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• Titre: Emperor to Emperor - Italy before the Renaissance, [Mediaeval Italy was the crucible of modern western civilization when the three great nations of the world, the Greeks, the Saracens and the Franks, encountered one another on the theatre of Italy, the consequence of which, enriched by the heritage of ancient Rome, was the Italian Renaissance],
• Éditeur: Constable, London, 1991.
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0094694907
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780094694903
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: see description
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Classical Greek and Roman Literature, Classical...

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Synopsis

This book spans the period from the Emperor Charlemagne to the Emperor Frederick II (Stupor Mundi), though as there are many references to periods and people before and after, the total span is nearly a thousand years. The author's technique is to consider a number of Italian towns and monuments and show their development and the influences which went into making them what they are. Thus there are chapters on Lombard Pavia and Muslim Palermo and other chapters which focus on a particular monument, such as Santa Maria del Monte in the Apennines. Medieval Italy was the crucible of modern western civilisation, when in the words of Gibbon "the three great nations of the world, the Greeks, the Saracens and the Franks, encountered each other on the theatre of Italy." The ultimate consequence of this encounter, enriched by the inheritage of ancient Rome and other invading peoples, was the Italian Renaissance. The early medieval history of the Italian penninsula, of the invasions of Ostrogoths, Lombards, Carolingian Franks, Arabs, Byzantine Greeks, Normans and German kings who wished to renew the Empire, together with the economic, social and cultural changes which followed the break-up of the Roman Empire, is a complex one, partly because of the chronology which is tortuous and partly because there was no single "Italy". Yet some idea of his story is essential for a full understanding of the later history of the country and especially of the Renaissance.