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Introduction: the Renaissance question / William Caferro
Part I. Disciplines and boundaries: Chapter 1. The 'economic' thought of the Renaissance / Germano Maifreda; Chapter 2. A makeshift renaissance: North India in the “long” fifteenth century / Samira Sheikh; Chapter 3. "By imitating our nurses": Latin and vernacular in the Renaissance / Eugenio Refini; Chapter 4. Individualism and the separation of fields of study: Jacob Burckhardt and Ercole Ricotti / William Caferro; Chapter 5. Riddles of Renaissance philosophy and humanism / Timothy Kircher
Part II. Encounters and transformations: Chapter 6. Object lessons and raw materials / Timothy McCall and Sean Roberts; Chapter 7. Imagination and the remains of Roman antiquity / William Stenhouse; Chapter 8. Sporus in the Renaissance: the eunuch as straight man / Katherine Crawford; Chapter 9. Heritable identity markers, nations, and physiognomy / Carina L. Johnson; Chapter 10. Biondo Flavio on Ethiopia: processes of knowledge production in the Renaissance / Samantha Kelly; Chapter 11. Traditions of Byzantine astrolabes in Renaissance Europe / Darin Hayton; Chapter 12. Reading Machiavelli in sixteenth-century Florence / Ann E. Moyer
Part III. Society and environment: Chapter 13. Why visit the shops? Taking up shopping as a pastime / Susan Mosher Stuard; Chapter 14. Throwing Aristotle from the train: women and humanism / Sarah Gwyneth Ross; Chapter 15. Mechanisms for unity: plagues and saints / Samuel K. Cohn; Chapter 16. Dead(ly) uncertainties: plague and Ottoman society in the age of the Renaissance / Nükhet Varlık; Chapter 17. Mapping Florence and Tuscany / Nicholas A. Eckstein; Chapter 18. Exercise and leisure: sport, dance, and games / Alessandro Arcangeli; Chapter 19. War, entrepreneurship, and politics / Suzanne Sutherland
Part IV. Power and representation: Chapter 20. From frontier principality to early modern empire: limitations and capabilities of Ottoman governance / Kaya Şahin; Chapter 21. Commerce and credit in Renaissance Florence / Paul D. McLean and John F. Padgett; Chapter 22. Against the fisc and justice: state formation, market development, and customs fraud / Corey Tazzara; Chapter 23. Representations of the Florentine Republic at the royal court in the Kingdom of Hungary / Katalin Prajda; Chapter 24. From the palazzo to the streets: women's agency and networks of exchange / Megan Moran
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