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A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

Guido Ruggiero (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5783-4
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574 pages
October 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • A collection from some of the most original Renaissance scholars, suggesting new ways of thinking about the period.

  • Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive.

  • Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective.

  • Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite.

  • Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are integrated into the analysis.

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