Renaissance? Perceptions of continuity and discontinuity in Europe, c.1300-c.1550

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pt. 1. The Renaissance and the classical tradition -- Introduction: Veteris vestigia flammae? : the "rebirths" of antiquity / Luke Houghton -- The Renaissance and the Middle Ages : chronologies, ideologies, geographies / Robert Black -- Shakespeare and the "tragedy" of the Renaissance / Robin Kirkpatrick -- "Humanitas Renata" / Robin Sowerby -- Machiavelli's appreciation of Greek antiquity and the ideal of "Renaissance" / George Steiris -- pt. 2. The Renaissance and the arts -- Introduction: Seeing is believing? : the Renaissance and the arts / Alexander Lee -- Vasari's Rinascita : history, anthropology, or art criticism? / Matteo Burioni -- The state of the art / Rob C. Wegman -- Brunelleschi's perspective panels : rupture and continuity in the history of the image / Johannes Grave -- Panofsky : linear perspective and perspectives of modernity / Rhys W. Roark -- Michelangelo's mythologies / Maria Ruvoldt -- The Byzantine influence on the introduction of the third dimension and the formation of Renaissance art / Diotima Liantini -- pt. 3. A wider Renaissance? -- Introduction: A wider Renaissance? / Alexander Lee -- Northern Renaissance? : Burgundy and Netherlandish art in fifteenth-century Europe / Hanno Wijsman -- Forgotten paths to "another" Renaissance : Prague and Bohemia, c.1400 / Klara Benesovska -- A new world of the mind? : Renaissance self-perception and the invention of printing / Andrew Pettegree -- The "invention" of Durer as a Renaissance artist / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Notes on the history of Renaissance scholarship in Central Europe : Bialostocki, Schlosser, and Panofsky / Ingrid Ciulisova.