Patronage in the Renaissance / / ed. by Guy Fitch Lytle, Stephen Orgel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bergeron, David Μ.,; Dorsten, Jan Van,; Gundersheimer, Werner L.,; Harding, Robert,; Hope, Charles,; Janson, H. W.,; Kipling, Gordon,; Lewis, Douglas,; Lytle, Guy Fitch,; Marotti, Arthur F.,; Orgel, Stephen,; Peck, Linda Levy,; Smuts, Malcolm,; Tennenhouse, Leonard,
• HerausgeberIn: Lytle, Guy Fitch,; Orgel, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 658
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)

The fourteen essays in this collection explore the dominance of patronage in Renaissance politics, religion, theatre, and artistic life.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I. Introduction -- ONE. Patronage in the Renaissance: An Exploratory Approach -- PART II. Patronage in the Church and State -- TWO. Court Patronage and Government Policy: The Jacobean Dilemma -- THREE. Corruption and the Moral Boundaries of Patronage in the Renaissance -- FOUR. Religion and the Lay Patron in Reformation England -- PART III. Patronage and the Arts -- FIVE. Henry VII and the Origins of Tudor Patronage -- SIX. The Political Failure of Stuart Cultural Patronage -- Literature -- SEVEN. Literary Patronage in Elizabethan England: The Early Phase -- EIGHT. John Donne and the Rewards of Patronage -- NINE. Sir Walter Ralegh and the Literature of Clientage -- Theatre -- TEN. The Royal Theatre and the Role of King -- ELEVEN. Women as Patrons of English Renaissance Drama -- The Visual Arts -- TWELVE. Artists, Patrons, and Advisers in the Italian Renaissance -- THIRTEEN. The Birth of "Artistic License": The Dissatisfied Patron in the Early Renaissance -- FOURTEEN. Patterns of Preference: Patronage of Sixteenth- Century Architects by the Venetian Patriciate -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE -- INDEX