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Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II
White Arthur
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Description for Plague and Pleasure: The Renaissance World of Pius II
Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBLC; HBTB; HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 692.
Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.
Pope Pius II experienced both plague and war during his reign and he exhibited many escapist behaviors typical of his period: the building of his “Shangri-La” at Pienza, ... Read more
Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.
Pope Pius II experienced both plague and war during his reign and he exhibited many escapist behaviors typical of his period: the building of his “Shangri-La” at Pienza, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813226811
SKU
V9780813226811
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About White Arthur
Arthur White is adjunct professor of history at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
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