Renaissances: The One or the Many?

ISBN-13: 9780521745161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 342 str.

Jack Goody

Opis

Addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the heart of our notions of modernity?

Recenzje

'Renaissances is a magisterial book.' Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The idea of a renaissance; 2. Montpellier and medicine in Europe; 3. Religion and the secular; 4. Rebirth in Islam; 5. Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism; 6. Cultural continuity in India; 7. Renaissance in China; 8. Were renaissances only European?; Appendices.