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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. Very Short Introductions available now: ANARCHISM Colin Ward CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS Mary Beard and Julia Annas John Henderson ANCIENT WARFARE CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard Harry Sidebottom THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore John Blair CONTEMPORARY ART ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia Julian Stallabrass ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn Continental Philosophy ARCHITECTURE Simon Critchley Andrew Ballantyne COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes THE CRUSADES ART HISTORY Dana Arnold Christopher Tyerman ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland CRYPTOGRAPHY THE HISTORY OF Fred Piper and Sean Murphy ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin DADA AND SURREALISM Atheism Julian Baggini David Hopkins Augustine Henry Chadwick Darwin Jonathan Howard BARTHES Jonathan Culler THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS THE BIBLE John Riches Timothy Lim THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea Democracy Bernard Crick BRITISH POLITICS DESCARTES Tom Sorell Anthony Wright DESIGN John Heskett Buddha Michael Carrithers DINOSAURS David Norman BUDDHISM Damien Keown DREAMING J. Allan Hobson BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown DRUGS Leslie Iversen CAPITALISM James Fulcher THE EARTH Martin Redfern THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch CHOICE THEORY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY Michael Allingham BRITAIN Paul Langford THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball Jung Anthony Stevens EMOTION Dylan Evans KAFKA Ritchie Robertson EMPIRE Stephen Howe KANT Roger Scruton ENGELS Terrell Carver KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Ethics Simon Blackburn THE KORAN Michael Cook The European Union LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews John Pinder LITERARY THEORY EVOLUTION Jonathan Culler Brian and Deborah Charlesworth LOCKE John Dunn FASCISM Kevin Passmore LOGIC Graham Priest FEMINISM Margaret Walters MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner FOSSILS Keith Thomson THE MARQUIS DE SADE FOUCAULT Gary Gutting John Phillips THE FRENCH REVOLUTION MARX Peter Singer William Doyle MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers FREE WILL Thomas Pink MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope Freud Anthony Storr MEDIEVAL BRITAIN Galileo Stillman Drake John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths Gandhi Bhikhu Parekh MODERN ART David Cottington GLOBAL CATASTROPHES MODERN IRELAND Senia Pasˇeta Bill McGuire MOLECULES Philip Ball GLOBALIZATION MUSIC Nicholas Cook Manfred Steger Myth Robert A. Segal GLOBAL WARMING NATIONALISM Steven Grosby Mark Maslin NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner HABERMAS NINETEENTH-CENTURY James Gordon Finlayson BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and HEGEL Peter Singer H. C. G. Matthew HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood NORTHERN IRELAND HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson Marc Mulholland HINDUISM Kim Knott PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close HISTORY John H. Arnold paul E. P. Sanders HOBBES Richard Tuck Philosophy Edward Craig HUMAN EVOLUTION PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Bernard Wood Samir Okasha HUME A. J. Ayer PLATO Julia Annas IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden POLITICS Kenneth Minogue Indian Philosophy POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton David Miller Intelligence Ian J. Deary POSTCOLONIALISM ISLAM Malise Ruthven Robert Young JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves POSTMODERNISM JUDAISM Norman Solomon Christopher Butler POSTSTRUCTURALISM SOCIAL AND CULTURAL Catherine Belsey ANTHROPOLOGY PREHISTORY Chris Gosden John Monaghan and PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Peter Just Catherine Osborne SOCIALISM Michael Newman Psychology Gillian Butler and SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce Freda McManus Socrates C. C. W. Taylor QUANTUM THEORY THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR John Polkinghorne Helen Graham THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton SPINOZA Roger Scruton RENAISSANCE ART STUART BRITAIN John Morrill Geraldine A. Johnson TERRORISM Charles Townshend ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway THEOLOGY David F. Ford ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler THE HISTORY OF TIME RUSSELL A. C. Grayling Leofranc Holford-Strevens RUSSIAN LITERATURE TRAGEDY Adrian Poole Catriona Kelly THE TUDORS John Guy THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TWENTIETH-CENTURY S. A. Smith BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan SCHIZOPHRENIA THE VIKINGS Julian D. Richards Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling SCHOPENHAUER WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman Christopher Janaway THE WORLD TRADE SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer ORGANIZATION SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt Amrita Narlikar Available soon: AFRICAN HISTORY HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside John Parker and HUMAN MIGRATION Richard Rathbone Khalid Koser ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CHAOS Leonard Smith Paul Wilkinson CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy NEWTON Robert Iliffe Derrida Simon Glendinning PHILOSOPHY OF LAW EXISTENTIALISM Raymond Wacks Thomas Flynn PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards THE FIRST WORLD WAR PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns Michael Howard RACISM Ali Rattansi FUNDAMENTALISM ROMAN EMPIRE Malise Ruthven Christopher Kelly For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ Jerry Brotton THE RENAISSANCE A Very Short Introduction 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in OxfordNew York AucklandCape TownDar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala LumpurMadridMelbourneMexico CityNairobi New DelhiShanghaiTaipeiToronto With offices in ArgentinaAustriaBrazilChileCzech Republic FranceGreece GuatemalaHungaryItaly Japan Poland PortugalSingapore South KoreaSwitzerlandThailand TurkeyUkraineVietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Jerry Brotton 2006 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published as The Renaissance Bazaar 2002 First published as a Very Short Introduction 2005 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0–19–280163–5 ISBN 978–0–19–280163–0 13579108642 Typeset by RefineCatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants Contents List of illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 A global Renaissance 19 2 The humanist script 38 3 Church and state 58 4 Brave new worlds 79 5 Science and philosophy 98 6 Rewriting the Renaissance 116 Timeline 129 Further reading 133 Index 137 This page intentionally left blank List of illustrations 1 Hans Holbein, The 6 Anon., Bini-Portuguese Ambassadors, 1533, oil on salt cellar, c.1490–1530, canvas 2 ivory 36 National Gallery, London © The Trustees of the British Museum, London 2 Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Saint Mark 7 Albrecht Dürer, portrait Preaching in Alexandria, of Erasmus, copperplate 1504–7, oil on canvas 20 engraving, 1526 53 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan/© © The Trustees of the British Scala, Florence Museum, London 3 Attr. Costanzo da Moysis, 8 Benozzo Gozzoli, Seated Scribe, c.1470–80, Adoration of the Magi, pen and gouache 31 1459, Fresco 63 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston/Bridgeman Art Chapel of the Palazzo Medici- Library Riccardi, Florence/© Scala, Florence 4 Attr. Bihzâd, Portrait of a Painter, late 15th 9 Roger van der Weyden, century 32 Seven Sacraments, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, c.1440–50, oil on Washington DC wood 66 5 Martin Behaim, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp/Bridgeman terrestrial globe, 1492, Art Library vellum 35 Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg/© akg-images
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