BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news409@kunstgeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221104T174041 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221202T141500 SUMMARY:51. Basler Renaissancekolloquium: «Dark Renaissance» DESCRIPTION:ANMELDUNG [https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/forschung/forschung skolloquien/basler-renaissancekolloquium/]\\r\\nSpeakers:\\r\\nMarta Celat i (Pisa) "Conspiracy and Political Conflict in Italian Renaissance Literat ure: Rebellion\, Obedience\, and a New Model of the State". Conspiracy was the main way through which insubordination to central authorities was car ried out in Renaissance Italy. A considerable number of literary works wer e devoted to this topic\, especially in the second half of the fifteenth c entury\, when the development of this strand of literature proves to be as sociated with the emergence of a centralized political ideology in Italian states. Indeed\, the issue of internal political conflict\, in connection with the intertwined themes of rebellion and obedience\, acquires a cruci al position not only in narratives of conspiratorial events\, but also in works aimed at defining the ideal prince and a new model of the state: a m odel that\, at the same time\, appears in its concrete actualization in th e accounts of contemporary history. Thus\, this multifaceted literary outp ut reveals the fruitful interplay between historiographical\, political\, and literary elements in shaping humanist political thought. The interdisc iplinary analysis of some significant sources selected as case studies all ows us to point out the key function played by recurring themes (e.g. viol ence\, revenge\, concordia)\, narrative techniques\, and ideological angle s in the representation of the topic of conspiracy\, and to identify the p ivotal role of political literature in the development of a blossoming con temporary theory of statecraft.\\r\\nScott Nethersole (London) "The Repres entation of War in Renaissance Florence" It was rare for Florentine artist s to depict battle scenes from recent history. But they are not unknown an d two of the most celebrated commissions of the Renaissance relate to wars fought in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: Paolo Uccello’s depic tions of the battle of San Romano\, and Leonardo and Michelangelo’s plan ned battles for the sala del Maggior Consiglio. Whether from the 1430s\, o r the early years of the sixteenth century\, these images are (or were to be) highly contrived\, with little relationship to the chaos\, violence an d terror of actual war. On the whole\, Florentines had no experience of th e battlefield\, at least before the billeting of French troops into their homes in late 1494\, begging the question of how Florentine artists came t o imagine war? Why did their images look the way they did? And what meanin g did their representations have for those who gazed upon them? This paper will explore relationships to the bellicose festival culture of Renaissan ce Florence and seek answers in a developing aesthetic of violence in the later fifteenth century.\\r\\nSamuel Cohn (Glasgow) "The Dark Side of the Black Death Silver Lining in Early Renaissance Italy" I will introduce thi s talk by revisiting my earlier reflections on violence and the repression of popular rebels in early Renaissance Italy. I then will shift gears to explore a less violent but more pervasive dark side of the Renaissance for nonelites. This concerns the so-called ‘silver lining of the Black Deat h’\, its demographic consequences that spawned high living standards for workers\, artisans\, and peasants and greater with greater expenditure on luxury items. In addition\, these conditions produced the longest period which historians can presently calculate quantitatively when the gap betwe en rich and poor narrowed. Less studied has been the impact of these econo mic changes on other spheres of activity. Against this favourable backdrop (in fact\, I hypothesize because of it)\, nonelites suffered politically and within the cultural realm. To understand these losses\, I will return to my introduction on political repression to raise a new hypothesis.          X-ALT-DESC:

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Marta Celati (Pisa) "Conspiracy and Po litical Conflict in Italian Renaissance Literature: Rebellion\, Obedience\ , and a New Model of the State".
Conspiracy was the main wa y through which insubordination to central authorities was carried out in Renaissance Italy. A considerable number of literary works were devoted to this topic\, especially in the second half of the fifteenth century\, whe n the development of this strand of literature proves to be associated wit h the emergence of a centralized political ideology in Italian states. Ind eed\, the issue of internal political conflict\, in connection with the in tertwined themes of rebellion and obedience\, acquires a crucial position not only in narratives of conspiratorial events\, but also in works aimed at defining the ideal prince and a new model of the state: a model that\, at the same time\, appears in its concrete actualization in the accounts o f contemporary history. Thus\, this multifaceted literary output reveals t he fruitful interplay between historiographical\, political\, and literary elements in shaping humanist political thought. The interdisciplinary ana lysis of some significant sources selected as case studies allows us to po int out the key function played by recurring themes (e.g. violence\, reven ge\, concordia)\, narrative techniques\, and ideological angles i n the representation of the topic of conspiracy\, and to identify the pivo tal role of political literature in the development of a blossoming contem porary theory of statecraft.

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Scott Nethersole (London) "Th e Representation of War in Renaissance Florence"
It was rar e for Florentine artists to depict battle scenes from recent history. But they are not unknown and two of the most celebrated commissions of the Ren aissance relate to wars fought in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: Paolo Uccello’s depictions of the battle of San Romano\, and Leonardo an d Michelangelo’s planned battles for the sala del Maggior Consiglio. Whe ther from the 1430s\, or the early years of the sixteenth century\, these images are (or were to be) highly contrived\, with little relationship to the chaos\, violence and terror of actual war. On the whole\, Florentines had no experience of the battlefield\, at least before the billeting of Fr ench troops into their homes in late 1494\, begging the question of how Fl orentine artists came to imagine war? Why did their images look the way th ey did? And what meaning did their representations have for those who gaze d upon them? This paper will explore relationships to the bellicose festiv al culture of Renaissance Florence and seek answers in a developing aesthe tic of violence in the later fifteenth century.

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Samuel Cohn (Glasg ow) "The Dark Side of the Black Death Silver Lining in Early Renai ssance Italy"
I will introduce this talk by revisiting my e arlier reflections on violence and the repression of popular rebels in ear ly Renaissance Italy. I then will shift gears to explore a less violent bu t more pervasive dark side of the Renaissance for nonelites. This concerns the so-called ‘silver lining of the Black Death’\, its demographic co nsequences that spawned high living standards for workers\, artisans\, and peasants and greater with greater expenditure on luxury items. In additio n\, these conditions produced the longest period which historians can pres ently calculate quantitatively when the gap between rich and poor narrowed . Less studied has been the impact of these economic changes on other sphe res of activity. Against this favourable backdrop (in fact\, I hypothesize because of it)\, nonelites suffered politically and within the cultural r ealm. To understand these losses\, I will return to my introduction on pol itical repression to raise a new hypothesis. \;  \; \; \;& nbsp\; \; \;

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