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Worldly Goods Lisa Jardine

Worldly Goods By Lisa Jardine

Worldly Goods by Lisa Jardine


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Summary

While many histories dwell on the making of Europe's cultural identity in the Renaissance period, this work examines the material culture of the time: the paintings; printed books; fabrics; and jewels, to provide an alternative interpretation of the Golden Age.

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Worldly Goods: New History of the Renaissance by Lisa Jardine

The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship and the serendipitous coming together of some of the greatest artists the world has ever known: this is the traditional view of the Renaissance. This work provides an interpretation of that age of European culture. In it, the author argues that while aristocrats and newly prosperous merchants commissioned works of art from the leading artists of the day, vicious commercial battles were being fought over silks and spices, and who should control international trade. As humanism and the new learning spread out of Italy across Europe, the prodigious output of the printing presses which sprang up soon dictated - by accident as much as by design - what was to become the European intellectual tradition.

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GOR002395983
9780333674468
0333674464
Worldly Goods: New History of the Renaissance by Lisa Jardine
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
19971024
481
N/A
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