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:news1620@dg.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221122T115247 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221202T141500 SUMMARY:51. Basler Renaissancekolloquium: "Dark Renaissance" DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\\r\\nMarta Celati (Pisa) "Conspiracy and Political Co nflict in Italian Renaissance Literature: Rebellion\, Obedience\, and a Ne w Model of the State". Conspiracy was the main way through which insubordi nation to central authorities was carried out in Renaissance Italy. A cons iderable number of literary works were devoted to this topic\, especially in the second half of the fifteenth century\, when the development of this strand of literature proves to be associated with the emergence of a cent ralized political ideology in Italian states. Indeed\, the issue of intern al political conflict\, in connection with the intertwined themes of rebel lion and obedience\, acquires a crucial position not only in narratives of conspiratorial events\, but also in works aimed at defining the ideal pri nce and a new model of the state: a model that\, at the same time\, appear s in its concrete actualization in the accounts of contemporary history. T hus\, this multifaceted literary output reveals the fruitful interplay bet ween historiographical\, political\, and literary elements in shaping huma nist political thought. The interdisciplinary analysis of some significant sources selected as case studies allows us to point out the key function played by recurring themes (e.g. violence\, revenge\, concordia)\, narrati ve techniques\, and ideological angles in the representation of the topic of conspiracy\, and to identify the pivotal role of political literature i n the development of a blossoming contemporary theory of statecraft.\\r\\n Scott Nethersole (London) "The Representation of War in Renaissance Floren ce" It was rare for Florentine artists to depict battle scenes from recent history. But they are not unknown and two of the most celebrated commissi ons of the Renaissance relate to wars fought in the fourteenth and fifteen th centuries: Paolo Uccello’s depictions of the battle of San Romano\, a nd Leonardo and Michelangelo’s planned battles for the sala del Maggior Consiglio. Whether from the 1430s\, or the early years of the sixteenth ce ntury\, these images are (or were to be) highly contrived\, with little re lationship to the chaos\, violence and terror of actual war. On the whole\ , Florentines had no experience of the battlefield\, at least before the b illeting of French troops into their homes in late 1494\, begging the ques tion of how Florentine artists came to imagine war? Why did their images l ook the way they did? And what meaning did their representations have for those who gazed upon them? This paper will explore relationships to the be llicose festival culture of Renaissance Florence and seek answers in a dev eloping aesthetic of violence in the later fifteenth century.\\r\\nSamuel Cohn (Glasgow) "The Dark Side of the Black Death Silver Lining in Early Re naissance Italy" I will introduce this talk by revisiting my earlier refle ctions on violence and the repression of popular rebels in early Renaissan ce Italy. I then will shift gears to explore a less violent but more perva sive dark side of the Renaissance for nonelites. This concerns the so-call ed ‘silver lining of the Black Death’\, its demographic consequences t hat spawned high living standards for workers\, artisans\, and peasants an d greater with greater expenditure on luxury items. In addition\, these co nditions produced the longest period which historians can presently calcul ate quantitatively when the gap between rich and poor narrowed. Less studi ed has been the impact of these economic changes on other spheres of activ ity. Against this favourable backdrop (in fact\, I hypothesize because of it)\, nonelites suffered politically and within the cultural realm. To und erstand these losses\, I will return to my introduction on political repre ssion to raise a new hypothesis.         X-ALT-DESC:

Speakers:

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Marta Celati (Pisa) "Conspiracy and Political Conflict in Italian Renaissance Literature: Rebellion\, Obedien ce\, and a New Model of the State".
Conspiracy was the main way 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\, when the development of this strand of literature proves to be associated 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 crucial positi on not only in narratives of conspiratorial events\, but also in works aim ed 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 account s of contemporary history. Thus\, this multifaceted literary output reveal s the fruitful interplay between historiographical\, political\, and liter ary elements in shaping humanist political thought. The interdisciplinary analysis of some significant sources selected as case studies allows us to point out the key function played by recurring themes (e.g. violence\, re venge\, 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.

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Scott Nethersole (London) "The Representation of War in Renaissance Florence"
It was rare for Florentine artists to depict battle scenes from recent history. B ut they are not unknown and two of the most celebrated commissions of the Renaissance relate to wars fought in the fourteenth and fifteenth centurie s: Paolo Uccello’s depictions of the battle of San Romano\, and Leonardo and Michelangelo’s planned battles for the sala del Maggior Consiglio. Whether from the 1430s\, or the early years of the sixteenth century\, the se images are (or were to be) highly contrived\, with little relationship to the chaos\, violence and terror of actual war. On the whole\, Florentin es had no experience of the battlefield\, at least before the billeting of French troops into their homes in late 1494\, begging the question of how Florentine artists came to imagine war? Why did their images look the way they did? And what meaning did their representations have for those who g azed upon them? This paper will explore relationships to the bellicose fes tival culture of Renaissance Florence and seek answers in a developing aes thetic of violence in the later fifteenth century.

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Samuel Cohn (Gl asgow) "The Dark Side of the Black Death Silver Lining in Early Re naissance Italy"
I will introduce this talk by revisiting m y 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 conce rns the so-called ‘silver lining of the Black Death’\, its demographic consequences that spawned high living standards for workers\, artisans\, and peasants and greater with greater expenditure on luxury items. In addi tion\, these conditions produced the longest period which historians can p resently calculate quantitatively when the gap between rich and poor narro wed. Less studied has been the impact of these economic changes on other s pheres of activity. Against this favourable backdrop (in fact\, I hypothes ize because of it)\, nonelites suffered politically and within the cultura l realm. To understand these losses\, I will return to my introduction on political repression to raise a new hypothesis. \;  \; \;  \; \; \; \;

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