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The Medici and the Art of Power #historyteacher

6/24/2013

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Alexander Lee admires an article by Frederick Godfrey from 1952, reflecting new attitudes towards the Renaissance.

An interesting look into the historiography of the Renaissance period. Lee shows how historians moved from Burckhardt's rose-tinted view of patronage, through Godfrey's interpretation and towards a modern view of the Medici where art was more about power than beauty.

Read more HERE

You can read the original Godfrey article HERE





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The Medici Bank and Florentine Capitalism

8/31/2011

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The old debate about the vigour of the spirit of capitalism in late medieval Italy wore itself out long ago, not having generated enough really interesting questions to keep it going. It is generally conceded that the Italian merchant was driven by the acquisitive instinct to make more money, that he was prepared often to take great risks to turn a quick profit, that he had carefully worked out the business techniques for proceeding rationally towards this goal, and finally that he was none the less passionately involved in this activity for all the ranting and raving of clerics about his abuse of the usury doctrine and about the moral dangers inherent in the business world. Since the beginning of business history as a distinct discipline within the realm of economic history, all these qualities of the early capitalist have been emphasized by economic historians of the period out to disprove notions that capitalism did not arise until the sixteenth century or later. Doubts linger on in some quarters about the existence in Italy of a positive and articulated those of capitalism, like the socalled work ethic and ascetic spirit associated with Protestantism and there is a general tendency to regard the merchant in this early stage of commercial capitalism more as a speculator, a kind of gambler, than as a planner with long-range goals. Generally speaking, however, discussions of capitalism in Italy have not succeeded in defining the term with sufficient precision to render it a useful tool for historical analysis.


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Mathematics and the Medici: Instruments from Late Renaissance Florence and a British Connection

6/13/2011

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The 16th-century instruments in the Museum of the History of Science in Florence provide one of the most attractive records of contemporary mathematics, significant for having been formed in the period, rather than assembled later by a museum or a collector.  This lecture presents the results of cataloguing these instruments.
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Medici Power and Patronage under Cosimo and Lorenzo de Medici

5/6/2011

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A dissertation on the role of the Medici

This paper looks at the Medici family’s rise to power and control over Florence.  The main focus of the paper is on Cosimo de’ Medici, who is the man responsible for bringing his family to power.  The first chapter looks at his business and familial connections and the ways that these relationships helped him gain power.  The second chapter examines Cosimo’s role as patron of the arts and learning and the ways in which this helped to extend his influence.  The third chapter looks at Cosimo’s grandson Lorenzo de’ Medici and the ways in which he continued the dominance of the Medici family in Florence, specifically focusing on his role as patron and how 
he took after his grandfather.


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The Medici and Gozzoli's Magi

12/7/2010

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Malcolm Oxley on how the Christmas story was co-opted into politics and social aspirations in Renaissance Florence.

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Some excellent videos on the Medici

9/20/2009

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Not sure you'd call these exactly historical but they do set the context for one of Florence's most influential families...the Medici. Might be interesting to compare the ideas in here with those we discuss in class. Would definitely recommend watching the whole first programme which is parts 1-6. Links for parts 2-5 given below:
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
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