Forging European identities, 1400 - 1700
Titel: | Forging European identities, 1400 - 1700 / ed. by Herman Roodenburg ... |
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Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press [u.a.], 2007 |
Umfang: | XXV, 439 S. : Ill., Kt. |
Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cultural exchange in early modern Europe / general ed. Robert Muchembled ... ; 4 ![]() |
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ISBN: | 0521845491 ; 9780521845496 |
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.