Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe: Volume 4 (Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe 4 Volume Hardback Set)

Cambridge University Press, 3/1/2007
EAN 9780521845496, ISBN10: 0521845491

Hardcover, 466 pages, 23.4 x 16 x 3.2 cm
Language: English

Cultural exchange, the dynamic give and take between two or more cultures, has become a distinguishing feature of modern Europe. This was already an important feature to the elites of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and it played a central role in their fashioning of self. The cultures these elites exchanged and often integrated with their own were both material and immaterial; they included palaces, city-dwellings, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, dresses and jewellery, but also gestures, ways of sitting, standing and walking, and dances. In this innovative and well-illustrated 2007 volume all this lively exchange is traced from Bruges, Augsburg and Istanbul to Italy; from Italy to Paris, Amsterdam, Dresden, Novgorod and Moscow; and even from Brazil to Rouen. This volume, which reveals how a first European identity was forged, will appeal to cultural and art historians, as well as social and cultural anthropologists.

Preface
Cultural exchange and cultural transfer in early modern Europe
a theoretical perspective and examples Bernd Roeck
1. The Baltic ceramic market 1200–1600
measuring Hanseatic cultural transfer and resistance David Gaimster
2. Between Italy and Moscow
cultural crossroads and the culture of exchange Evelyn Welch
3. Netherlandish painting and early Renaissance Italy
artistic rapports in a historiographical perspective Bernard Aikema
4. Cultural transfer between Venice and the Ottomans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Deborah Howard
5. Wandering objects, migrating artists
the appropriation of Italian Renaissance art by German courts in the sixteenth century Barbara Marx
6. The dressed body
the moulding of identities in sixteenth-century France Isabelle Paresys
7. Clothing and cultural exchange in Renaissance Germany Ulinka Rublack
8. Gesture and comportment
diversity and uniformity Dilwyn Knox
9. The exchange of dance cultures in Renaissance Europe
Italy, France and abroad Marina Nordera
10. Dancing in the Dutch Republic
the uses of bodily memory Herman Roodenburg
11. Imaginations of overseas cultures in Western European pageants, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries Johan Verberckmoes
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