Year of manufacture: 2006
Author: Jerry Brotton
Genre: History of European culture / Renaissance / Popular science
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0-19-280163-5; 978-0-19-280163-0
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 148

In the author's opinion, the Renaissance became, more than any other period, the defining moment of world history. European ways of perceiving society, culture, politics and even humanity itself, which appeared between 1400 and 1600, continue to affect not only Europe, but the whole world.
In this comprehensive study of the Renaissance, the author shows the period as the time of an unprecedented intellectual upsurge, cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, adjacent to the dark sides of religious struggle, religious intolerance and xenophobia, slavery, and colossal social and economic inequalities. The author explores the key issues that determined the Renaissance - from fine art, architecture and literature to advances in the fields of science, commerce and geographical discoveries. In this contradictory and complete complex political and religious upheaval period, the author finds significant parallels between the Renaissance and the modern era.

List of illustrations................. ix
Introduction......................... 1
1. A global Renaissance.............. 19
2. The humanist script....................... 38
3. Church and state........................ 58
4. Brave new worlds......................... 79
5. Science and philosophy................... 98
6. Rewriting the Renaissance................. 116
Timeline............................................ 129
Further reading................................. 133
Index............................................... 137

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