Cox, Virginia
(ed.)
Paul, Joanne
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: The Cultural Histories Series
Número de páginas: 288 págs. 16.9 x 24.4 cm
Fecha de edición: 08-02-2024
EAN: 9781350440333
ISBN: 978-1-350-44033-3
Precio (sin IVA): 34,75 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 36,14 €
The Renaissance has rarely been considered an important moment in the history of democracy. Nonetheless, as this volume shows, this period may be seen as a “democratic laboratory” in many, often unexpected, ways. The classicizing cultural movement known as humanism, which spread throughout Europe and beyond in this period, had the effect of vastly enhancing knowledge of the classical democratic and republican traditions. Greek history and philosophy, including the story of Athenian democracy, became fully known in the West for the first time in the postclassical world.