Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance

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Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance is written by Ronald G. Musto and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351767399 (ISBN 10) and 9781351767392 (ISBN 13).

This volume traces the work of trecento historians of the Mezzogiorno, analyzing it through current methodological and theoretical frameworks. Questioning the current consensus, the book examines how the South as a cultural "other" began evolving over the fourteenth century, and reconsiders the nineteenth-century "Southern Question" concerning the Mezzogiorno’s history, culture and people and its lingering negative image in Europe and America. It also focuses on specific histories, authors and historiographical issues, and reviews how new understandings of the Mediterranean have begun to alter our perceptions of the South in a new global context and as the basis for new historical research.