At the margins; minority groups in premodern Italy.0816638217 At the margins; minority groups in premodern pre·mod·ern adj. Existing or coming before a modern period or time: the feudal system of premodern Japan. Italy. Ed. by Stephen J. Milner. U. of Minnesota Press 2005 283 pages $24.95 Paperback Medieval cultures; v.39 HN490 Various aspects of the relation of margins to centers in premodern and early modern Italy are explored in 13 commissioned essays by historians and scholars of Italian literature Italian literature, writings in the Italian language, as distinct from earlier works in Latin and French. The Thirteenth Century The first Italian vernacular literature began to take shape in the 13th cent. . They consider such topics as identity and the margins of Italian Renaissance culture, Jews Jews [from Judah], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism. and Christians, women's literacy in Quattrocento quat·tro·cen·to n. The 15th-century period of Italian art and literature. [Italian, short for (mil) quattrocento, one thousand four hundred : quattro, four (from Latin Florence, and mountaineers in Renaissance Florence. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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