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Drawing on a wide range of literature and adopting a macroeconomic approach, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, focusing on the period between 1348, the year of the Black Death, and 1630. The Italian Renaissance played a crucial role in the formation of modern world, with developments in culture, art, politics, philosophy and science sitting alongside, and overlapping with, significant changes in production, forms of organisation, trades, finance, agriculture and population. Yet it is usually argued that splendour in culture coexisted with economic depression: that the modernity of Renaissance culture coincided with an epoch of epidemics, famines, economic crisis, poverty and destitution. This book examines both faces of the Italian economy during the Renaissance showing that capital per worker was plentiful and productive capacity and incomes were relatively high. The endemic presence of the plague, curbing population growth, played an important role in this. It is also shown that the organisation of production in industry and finance, consumerism, human capital and mercantile rationality were forerunners of modern-day capitalism. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance and Italian economic history. Paolo Malanima is an economic historian. He has been Director of the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies (ISSM-CNR) in Naples, Italy, and Professor of Compared Economies and Growth Economics in Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro. His main research interests span the long-term Italian economy and past and present energy consumption. --

Italy --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques. --- Economic history. --- 1300-1599 --- Italie --- Italy.

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Comment le livre, objet a priori étranger à la vocation guerrière du second ordre, est-il devenu, dans les derniers siècles du Moyen Âge, l'un des outils privilégiés de la noblesse laïque francophone ? S'inscrivant dans une démarche résolument synthétique et fondé sur un corpus composé de près de neuf cents individus (possesseurs de manuscrits, écrivains, poètes et rédacteurs d'écrits privés), cet ouvrage ambitionne de retracer les grandes lignes de cette conquête. Il établit l'existence d'une large noblesse lettrée, instruite et encouragée à s'instruire, élaborant par ses lectures et ses écrits une culture complexe et originale, adaptée à ses besoins, ses goûts et ses compétences, et mettant tout en œuvre pour intégrer les usages du livre au mode de vie et à l'idéal nobiliaires

Noblesse --- Livres et lecture --- Nobility --- Books and reading --- History. --- Education --- France --- Intellectual life --- History --- Book history --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- 091 <44> --- 929.7 --- 091 "13/15" --- 091 "13/15" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--14e/16e eeuw. Periode 1300-1599 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--14e/16e eeuw. Periode 1300-1599 --- 929.7 Adel. Eretitels --- Adel. Eretitels --- 091 <44> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frankrijk --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frankrijk --- Nobility - Books and reading - France - History - To 1500. --- France - Intellectual life - To 1500.

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This book is the first synthetic treatment of Venetian woodcarving and woodcarvers. It opens with an introduction covering all aspects of the subject - materials, techniques, patronage, genres, and style, as well as social history of the profession in late Medieval and Renaissance Venice. There follows a biographical dictionary of nearly 600 woodcarvers, largely based on unpublished archival documents, the most interesting of which are transcribed in entirety. The catalogue focuses on 13 works of particular interest in and outside of Venice. The corpus of 20 illustrations in color and 300 in black and white reproduces statues, altarpieces, crucifixes, and choir stalls in lavish and exquisite detail. Centro.

houtsnijwerk --- beeldhouwkunst --- altaarstukken --- 1350 - 1550 --- 14de eeuw --- 15de eeuw --- 16de eeuw --- Venetië --- 761 <45 VENEZIA> --- 76 <45> "13/15" --- 761 <45 VENEZIA> Hoogdruktechnieken in de grafische kunst--Italië--VENEZIA --- Hoogdruktechnieken in de grafische kunst--Italië--VENEZIA --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Italië--15e-16e eeuw. Periode 1300-1599 --- Wood-carving, Renaissance --- Wood sculpture, Italian --- Italian wood sculpture --- Renaissance wood-carving --- History --- houtsnijwerk. --- sculptuur. --- altaarstukken. --- 1350 - 1550. --- 14de eeuw. --- 15de eeuw. --- 16de eeuw. --- Venetië. --- sculptuur