Urban life in the Renaissance / edited by Susan Zimmerman and Ronald F.E. Weissman.

Urban life in the Renaissance / edited by Susan Zimmerman and Ronald F.E. Weissman.

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©1989.

303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Selected papers delivered at two symposia sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, College Park: Urban life in the Renaissance (3-4 March, 1983) and Forms of play in the early modern period (22-23 March, 1984).

Includes bibliographies and index.

Social stratification in Renaissance urban planning / James S. Ackerman and Myra Nan Rosenfeld
The construction of Pienza (1459-1464) and the consequences of Renovatio / Nicholas Adams
Houses divided / Barbara Diefendorf
Leisure and sociability / Roger Chartier
Trickery, gender, and power / Werner L. Gundersheimer
Minstrels and their repertory in fifteenth-century France / Howard Mayer Brown
History, politics, and the portrait of a city / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
Celebrating authority in Bristol, 1475-1640 / David Harris Sacks
The palio of Siena / Sydel Silverman
"Thou idol ceremony" / Richard C. McCoy
The importance of being ambiguous / Ronald F.E. Weissman
Ceremonial play and parody in the Renaissance / Thomas M. Greene.

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