n this wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, Jerry rotton shows the period as a time of unprecedented ntellectual excitement, cultural experimentation, and nteraction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of eligion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of ealth and status. Brotton skillfully guides us through the ey issues that defined the Renaissance period, and puts orth the compelling arguement that there are significant arallels between the Renaissance and our own era. This is he first clear and ...
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n this wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, Jerry rotton shows the period as a time of unprecedented ntellectual excitement, cultural experimentation, and nteraction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of eligion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of ealth and status. Brotton skillfully guides us through the ey issues that defined the Renaissance period, and puts orth the compelling arguement that there are significant arallels between the Renaissance and our own era. This is he first clear and concise account of the Renaissance as a lobal phenomenon, and an important new vision of the enaissance for the 21st century.
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