A companion to late Antiquity

The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. The past is seen and touched and tasted and smelt as well as heard and read about. Empathy, re-enactment, memory and commemoration overwhelm traditional history. A unified past once certified by experts and reliant on written texts has become a fragmented, contested history forged by us all. New insights into history and memory, bias and objectivity, artefacts and monuments, identity and authenticity, and remorse and contrition, make this book once again the essential guide to the past that we inherit, reshape and bequeath to the future.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/2325548X.2017.1315261

The Past Is a Foreign Country - Revisited

The birth of a new form of business organization, the partnership system, in Renaissance Florence is examined closely in order to discover the social processes of invention in that extraordinarily inventive place. Stated generally, the processes of invention the authors discover there are transposition, refunctionality, and catalysis across multiple social networks. Specifically, political co‐optation of cambio bankers in the aftermath of the Ciompi revolt induced the transposition of domestic guild methods to the international plane, thereby changing their purpose and their reach. Subsequent social absorption through marriage of these elevated bankers into the victorious political alliance infused partnership with the multiplex logic (and often money) of dowry, thereby reproducing partnership systems as an integral component in post‐Ciompi republicanism. Medieval organizational logics of patrilineage and guild were transformed into Renaissance organizational logics of marriage and clientage. The origins ...

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jpadgett/papers/published/orginvent.pdf

Organizational invention and elite transformation : The birth of partnership systems in renaissance florence

A companion to Greek and Roman political thought

Brill's studies in intellectual history

REVISED, ONE-VOLUME EDITION, WITH AN EPILOGUE By HANS BARON. In this revised one-volume edition, the author has condensed the longer notes and added new ones, while leaving the original numbering intact, so the interested scholar may still refer to volume two of the first edition. New findings from archival and manuscript sources strengthen many points. The chapters on the political background of the changes in culture and thought as well as those dealing with \"The Dangers of Humanist Classicism,\" and \"Humanism and Classicism\" are enlarged and an epilogue has been added. 600 Pages, $10.00 (Paperback) $2.95T

The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny

The Albertis of Florence: Leon Battista Alberti's Della Famiglia

In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.

Guido A. Guarino

Papers

The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny

The Albertis of Florence: Leon Battista Alberti's Della Famiglia

Machiavelli and Guicciardini. Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence

Letters from Petrarch