Contextualizing the Renaissance Returns to History Selected Proceedings from the 28th Annual Cemers Conference

The volume comprises a body of work organised around a governing theme - modes of historicization. Each of the essays demonstrates the practice of or a commentary upon a distinctive historicized criticism. By 'historicized' as contrasted with 'historical' criticism, it is meant that these essays problematicize, stretch or reconceive traditional historical practices. Challenging the notion that the production of paintings, dramatic texts or even conduct books can be read against a stable historical ground, they show that paintings, works of literature, and treatises not only participate in history but are exemplars of textual instability. The very content of these texts can be shown, in various editions, to change over time - and yet each bears a single, determinate title. In such ways the contributions gathered here all show that they have been affected by 'the new history'.Tricomi, A. H. is the author of 'Contextualizing the Renaissance Returns to History Selected Proceedings from the 28th Annual Cemers Conference' with ISBN 9782503508498 and ISBN 2503508499.