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What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian her...
Essays in Honour of Peter Burke
Melissa Calaresu is the McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK. Filippo de Vivo is Senior Lecturer ...
From Gutenberg to Diderot
In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of prin...
How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, ...
A Global History
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 โIgnorance: A Glo...
idea of culture plays an increasingly important part. The new edition also surveys the very latest developments in the field and considers the directi...
The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of w...
The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to ...
The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend ...
This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution....
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Culture and Society in Italy - Third Edition
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social an...
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George ...
Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike f...
With this pioneering work, Peter Burke provides the first comprehensive social history of language in early modern Europe. Utilizing a method that wil...
The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and ...
Culture, Language, Architecture
Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural hy...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
In this study Peter Burke distances himself from the traditional interpretation of the Renaissance as essentially Italian, self-consciously modern and...
From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the F...
From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In...
Centers and Peripheries
This is a fascinating account of the geography, chronology and sociology of one of the major cultural movements in European history....
Published in a thoroughly revised second edition, Venice and Amsterdam is a comparative history of the elites of these two major cities in early moder...
The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano
Castiglione's Cortegiano, or the Courtier, is one of the best-known texts of the Italian Renaissance. When it first appeared in 1528, the Courtier was...
A Study of Seventeeth- Century Elites
Essays on Perception and Communication
Based on archival material from the cities of Genoa, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as on published sources, such as travel journa...
The Annales School 1929 - 2014
This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement h...
What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowled...
"Discusses whether exiles and expatriates have made a distinctive contribution to knowledge"--Provided by the publisher....
In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and ex...
Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches; with a Summary of His Life
From Gutenberg to the Internet
Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first two editions of A Social History of the Media became classic textbooks, providing a m...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845....