Renaissance Bazaar From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

Name: Renaissance Bazaar From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
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ISBN: 9780192802651

ISBN-10: 0192802658

ISBN-13: 9780192802651

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jerry Brotton

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The Renaissance rang in changes at a breathtaking pace, changes that shape the world to this day. Now Jerry Brotton deftly captures this remarkable age, in a book that places Europe's great flowering in a revealing global context. It was Europe's contact with the outside world, Brotton argues, especially with the rich and cultivated East, that made the Renaissance what it was. Indeed, Europeans saw themselves through the mirror of the East--it was during this age, for instance, that they first spoke of themselves as "Europeans." Here is cultural history of the best kind, as Brotton muses on the meanings of Holbein's painting "The Ambassadors"--which is virtually a catalog of the…

Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




Introduction



Civilising the Renaissance



Putting Things into Perspective



The Renaissance in Black and White



Different Words of God



Brave New Worlds


Timeline


References


Further Reading