{"product_id":"redreaming-the-renaissance-essays-on-history-and-literature-in-honor-of-guido-ruggiero-9781644533369","title":"Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero","description":"\u003ci\u003eRedreaming the Renaissance \u003c\/i\u003eseeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always distinguish between the historical and literary significance of the texts they read and produced. Literature here is broadly conceived to include not only \u003ci\u003ebelles lettres\u003c\/i\u003e, but also other forms of artful writing that flourished in the period, including philosophical writings on dreams and prophecy; life-writing; religious debates; menu descriptions and other food writing; diaries, news reports, ballads, and protest songs; and scientific discussions. The twelve essays in this collection examine the role that the volume's dedicatee has played in bringing the disciplines of history and literary studies into provocative conversation, as well as the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Lindemann is professor emerita of history, University of Miami. Her most recent books include: \u003ci\u003eLiaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eMedicine and Society in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (2nd ed., 2009), and \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She is currently writing a book on the wars of the mid to late seventeenth century and especially their aftermath in Brandenburg. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deanna Shemek is professor of Italian and European studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of \u003ci\u003eLadies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy \u003c\/i\u003e(1998) and of \u003ci\u003eIn Continuous Expectation: Isabella d'Este's Reign of Letters \u003c\/i\u003e(2021). She has coedited numerous volumes, including \u003ci\u003ePhaethon's Children: The Este Court and its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), \u003ci\u003eWriting Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), and \u003ci\u003eItinera chartarum\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003e150 anni dell'Archivio di Stato di \u003c\/i\u003eMantova (2019). She co-directs \u003ci\u003eIDEA: Isabella d'Este Archive\u003c\/i\u003e, an online project for study of the Italian Renaissance.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50401535983890,"sku":"9781644533369","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8def9717-2f95-486e-9819-781d04d77d30.jpg?v=1729138829","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/redreaming-the-renaissance-essays-on-history-and-literature-in-honor-of-guido-ruggiero-9781644533369","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}