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Article: Renaissance Florence: A Social History
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- The Catholic Historical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Catholic University of America Press Jul 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Renaissance Florence: A Social History. Edited by Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 674. $150.00.)
This welcome collection of essays on the society and art of Renaissance Florence serves as an up-to-date and accessible introduction to much current research in the field. While it is not perhaps a "social history" of Florence as its subtitle says - at least as that term was understood by an older generation interested above all in demography and in social relations, structures, and institutions - Renaissance Florence does tackle many of the historical questions touching the relationship between art and society that emerged from that and ...