Italy in the Renaissance: Society, Politics, and Popular Culture in the 14th Century
FAIN: FS-10390-76
Brown University (Providence, RI 02912-9100)
Anthony Molho (Project Director: September 1976 to present)
To utilize the insights of cultural anthropology, especially the work of Clifford Geertz, in order to challenge, methodologically and substantively, the traditional view that Renaissance Italy was the birthplace of the modern cultural era.