The History of Renaissance Cartography: Interpretive Essays

Cartography and the Renaissance: Continuity and Change

A treatise on lovesickness

current study owes much to Schmitt's scholarship. He died in April 1986. This volume collects essays by scholars of diverse backgrounds as a tribute to Schmitt's achievements. Several essays extend and develop work begun by Schmitt: Eckhard Kessler provides a useful review of how Renaissance Aristotelianism is interrelated to Renaissance humanism and Platonism; through an examination of the tre...

Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance (essays to honour Walter Pagel)

Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance (essays to honour Walter Pagel), ed. by ALLEN G. The very title of this book reflects the influence exerted by Walter Pagel on contemporary historians. Perhaps more than any other historian of this century he has emphasized both by precept and example the inadequacy of historical motifs narrowly conceived from the twentieth-century point of view....

Towards a Computational History of Ideas

The History of Ideas is presently enjoying a certain renaissance after a long period of disrepute. Increasing quantities of digitally available historical texts and the availability of computational tools for the exploration of such masses of sources, it is suggested, can be of invaluable help to historians of ideas. The question is: how exactly? In this paper, we argue that a computational his...

State, Cartography, and Territory in Renaissance Veneto and Lombardy

874 If one is to explain why the cartographers of Renaissance Italy were the most innovative and prolific in western Europe in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one has to look elsewhere than the usual general cultural explanations that are put forward for the rise of the Renaissance. Instead, one has to look at the role of maps as increasingly complex expressions of mastery over ter...