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Contesting the Renaissance

William Caferro
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2369-3
Hardcover
264 pages
July 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance
  • Asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, and prosperity
  • Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance
  • Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith
  • Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studies

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