Italy and Hungary in the Early Renaissance. Cultural Exchanges and Social Networks By Kati (Katalin) Prajda

Italy and Hungary in the Early Renaissance. Cultural Exchanges and Social Networks By Kati (Katalin) Prajda https://www.academia.edu/100761830/Italy_and_Hungary_in_the_Early_Renaissance_Cultural_Exchanges_and_Social_Networks?email_work_card=title Up to now, the dominant narrative of Renaissance historiography has concentrated on Western Europe. Surprisingly, this is even the case in the field of cross-cultural exchanges, which have frequently overlooked the central and eastern parts of the European continent. If they do so, they project a modern division into eastern and western Europe onto the medieval and Renaissance periods. They seem, moreover, focused on analyzing the impact of Western European cultural centres elsewhere rather than on considering cultural exchanges as a process of cross-fertilization between two distinct regions. Similarly, there has been no monograph-length study dedicated to cultural exchanges in Renaissance Italy which would simultaneously consider diplomacy, commerce, migration, and the written and the visual cultures. Therefore, the present book challenges the existing scholarship on both fronts. It aims to address three broad issues: the spread of early Renaissance Italian cultural inventions; the interconnectivity between the Italian Peninsula and the Kingdom of Hungary; and the role of social networks in shaping the Italian Renaissance by forging dialogues with other cultures. ...