Varieties of cultural history

Preface. 1. Origins of Cultural History. 2. The Cultural History of Dreams. 3. History as Social Memory. 4. The Language of Gesture in Early Modern Italy. 5. Frontiers of the Comic in Early Modern Italy. 6. The Discreet Charm of Milan: English Travellers in the Seventeenth Century. 7. Public and Private Spheres in Late Renaissance Genoa. 8. Learned and Popular Culture in Renaissance Italy. 9. Chivalry in the New World. 10. The Translation of Culture: Carnival in Two or Three Worlds. 11. Strengths and Weaknesses of the History of Mentalities. 12. Unity and Variety in Cultural History. Bibliography. Index.