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OverviewFrom the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society. Analyzing a range of documentary and literary evidence, art and architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an “acoustic topography” of Florence. The dissemination of official messages, the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city’s physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal, communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious. By exploring these rarely studied soundscapes, Atkinson shows Florence to be both an exceptional and an exemplary case study of urban conditions in the early modern period. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Niall Atkinson (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.179kg ISBN: 9780271071206ISBN 10: 0271071206 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 15 October 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Journey into the Noisy Renaissance Chapter 1: The Acoustic Art of City-Building Chapter 2: Florentine Soundscapes Chapter 3: Sound, Space, and Meaning in Renaissance Florence Chapter 4: Suoni, Voci, Rumori: Listening to the City Chapter 5: Sonic Discord, Urban Disorder Epilogue: Ephemerality, Durability, and Architectural History Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsGracefully written and superbly designed, this landmark study of Florentine soundscapes reveals how listening and hearing influenced everything from life on the street to the ways that citizens understood and experienced the passing of time itself. Niall Atkinson does not simply move the history of Renaissance Florence onto new ground with The Noisy Renaissance--he reorients our thinking about how lives were lived in all late medieval and early modern European cities. --Nicholas Eckstein, author of Painted Glories: The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence Author InformationNiall Atkinson is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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