Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke

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Joan Pau Rubiés, Melissa Calaresu, Filippo de Vivo
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 - History - 376 pages
In this volume, a group of international historians come together to consider the rise of cultural history in general, and to highlight the particular role played in this rise by Peter Burke, the first Professor of Cultural History of the University of Cambridge and one of the most influential authors in the field.
 

Contents

The Ecotype Or a Modest Proposal to Reconnect Cultural
31
Dynasty and Community in Habsburg Madrid
55
The Knights of Malta and Criminal Behaviour
77
Languages of Exclusion
113
War and Polemics in Early Modern Europe
133
What a King Needs
151
Towards a History
169
Saints as Cultural History
191
The Geography of Knowledge in
249
Elegant Dutch? The Reception of Castigliones Cortegiano
265
Stereotypes and Cultural Encounters across
289
The Myth of Venice and the British
309
Translating Antiquarian Learning into Popular
327
A Mutual Discovery
345
Exploring Cultural History A Response
351
Index
359

How to Look like a CounterReformation Saint
207
The Juxtaposition of Images in Early Modern
231

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