Renaissance Battle for Rome (eBook)

Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry

Susanna de Beer (Autor)

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2024
256 Seiten
OUP Oxford (Verlag)
978-0-19-887892-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome-a battle over the question of whose claims to this legacy were most legitimate. Distinguishing four domains-power, morality, cityscape and literature-in which ancient Rome represented a particularly powerful example, this book traces the contours of this rhetorical battle across Renaissance Europe, based on a broad selection of Humanist Latin Poetry. It shows how humanist poets negotiated different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work, acting both as "e;spin doctors"e; and "e;new Romans"e;, while also undermining competing claims to this same idealized past. By so doing this book not only offers a new understanding of several aspects of the Renaissance that are usually considered separately, but ultimately allows us to understand Renaissance culture as a constant negotiation between appropriating and contesting the idea and ideal of "e;Rome."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-19-887892-3 / 0198878923
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-887892-6 / 9780198878926