Article: Renaissance Florence: Society, Culture and Religion.

It is a revivifying experience to read the collected essays of a leading historian of the Renaissance. Although Gene Brucker stands out for his early interest in social history (documented in the path-breaking The Society of Renaissance Florence, 1971), he never discusses society in isolation from politics, as he demonstrates in his two major books, Florentine Politics and Society, 1343-1378 (1962) and The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence (1977). Politics and society intermingle in the collected essays too, which are divided into three sections: "Florentine Society from the Black Death to the Age of Lorenzo," "Aspects of Florentine Culture" (which includes sorcery ...

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