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Contesting Renaissance
Hardcover
Series: Contesting the Past, Book 8
Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World HistoryHistoriography
ISBN13: 9781405123693
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Aug 2 2010
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.
- An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance
- 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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