Cambridge University Press Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe: Forging European Identities, 1400 - 1700: Volume 4 (Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe 4 Volume Hardback Set)

Cultural exchange, the dynamic give and take between two or more cultures, has become a distinguishing feature of modern Europe. This was already an important feature to the elites of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and it played a central role in their fashioning of self. The cultures these elites exchanged and often integrated with their own were both material and immaterial; they included palaces, city-dwellings, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, dresses and jewellery, but also gestures, ways of sitting, standing and walking, and dances. In this innovative and well-illustrated 2007 volume all this lively exchange is traced from Bruges, Augsburg and Istanbul to Italy; from Italy to Paris, Amsterdam, Dresden, Novgorod and Moscow; and even from Brazil to Rouen. This volume, which reveals how a first European identity was forged, will appeal to cultural and art historians, as well as social and cultural anthropologists. Review 'This finely composed book contains a wealth of information not only for scholars of Renaissance and early modern studies, but for anyone interested in a Europe still under construction today.' Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire Book Description This 2007 volume reveals how a first European identity was forged from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. About the Author Bernd Roeck is Professor of Early Modern History at Zurich University. His publications in English include, as an editor with Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham, Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe (2005). Herman Roodenburg is Head of the Department of Ethnology at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, and Professor of Cultural History at the Catholic University of Leuven. His publications in English include, as a co-editor with Jan Bremmer, A Cultural History of Humour (1996), and The Eloquence of the Body: Studies on Gesture in the Dutch Republic (2004),