New from the centre for renaissance and reformation studies
Early Modern Hospitality Edited by David B. Goldstein and Marco Piana Regulating relationships among strangers was a primary concern of the early modern world. Both the rediscovery of classical texts and new encounters between Europeans and Arabs, Asians, and Native Americans required a rethinking of the laws and customs of hospitality on both a local and a global scale. Theological conflicts and shifting national alignments in Europe itself also imperiled traditional conceptions of host and guest, forcing thinkers to envision their responsibilities to others in new ways. The thirteen articles in this collection offer case studies that examine the philosophies and dynamics of hospitality in early modern Italy, England, Central Europe, and the Ottoman Empire. In so doing, they explore practices, symbols, and philosophies of hospitality and obligation in the early modern world. Contents Introduction (David B. Goldstein and Marco Piana) 1. “Ben venga Carlo Imperadore!”: Welcoming the Enemy to Siena in 1535 (Elena Brizio) 2. Hosting the Enemy: Accommodating the French King and his Troops in Florence, 1494 (Sarah Rolfe Prodan) 3. Hospitality and Power: Pontano’s Book of Virtues (Pina Palma) 4. Hospitality, Government, and Informal Politics in Fifteenth-Century Rome: Cardinals’ and Baron’s Palaces as Social Hubs in the Farnese Political Network (Loek Luiten) 5. Visiting Convents: Hospitality Practices of Nunneries in the Papal State (1592–1605) (Isabel Harvey) 6. “Sheltering Strangers” or “Welcoming Pilgrims”? Shifting Concepts of Hospitality in the Iconography of the Seven Works of Mercy (Barbara A. Kaminska) 7. “Domestication” Revisited: Hospitality and the Foreign in Early Modern English Translation Discourse (Marie-Alice Belle) 8. “These be the Bees which I keepe”: Jack of Newbury’s Beehive Hospitality (Madeline Bassnett) 9. Mind Your Manors: The Hundred-Mile Host in English Renaissance Literary Culture (Elizabeth Hodgson) 10. Hospitality Between the Sheets (Thomas V. Cohen) 11. Wealth and Forbearance: Economy and Hospitality in Early Modern Venice (Salvatore Ciriacono) 12. From England to Central Europe: Hospitality in the Bohemian Lands in the Eyes of Early Modern English Travellers (Hana Ferencová) 13. The Vulnerability of Anglo-Islamic Hospitality in the Early Modern Period (Fatima Ebrahim)
This fascinating collection of articles and its suggestive juxtapositions extend the question of hospitality in early modern Europe, showing its implications across institutions, cultures, and social practices. -Sean Lawrence, University of British Columbia Tracking hospitality in civic, religious, literary, and international places and spaces, this stunning new collection of essays crosses Europe in search of hospitality’s accommodations, achievements, and catastrophes. -Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine In dialogue with contemporary theory and grounded on solid archival research, the essays in this volume make a compelling case for hospitality’s place in early modern thought and society from London to Rome and from Venice to the eastern frontiers of its commercial routes. -Matteo Soranzo, McGill University David B. Goldstein serves as Associate Professor of English and coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at York University in Toronto. Marco Piana is Visiting Assistant Professor in Italian at Smith College and Fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto.
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