Re-Orienting the Renaissance [electronic resource] : Cultural Exchanges with the East /
Maclean, G.editor.
This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to Venetian publishing, from portraits of St George to Arab philosophy, from cannibalism to diplomacy, the authors interrogate what all too often may seem to be settled certainties, such as the difference between East and West, the invariable conflict between Islam and Christianity, and the 'rebirth' of European civilization from roots in classical Greece and Imperial Rome.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / George MacLean -- The status of the Oriental traveller in Renaissance Venice / Deborah Howard -- St George between East and West / Jerry Brotton -- Mummy is become merchandise / Philip Schwyzer -- A double perspective and a lost rivalry / Barnaby Rogerson -- The French Renaissance in search of the Ottoman empire / Philip Mansel -- Petrarch and 'that mad dog Averroes' / Robert Irwin -- Arab views of Europeans, 1578-1727 / Nabil Matar -- The treacherous cleverness of hindsight / Caroline Finkel.
This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to Venetian publishing, from portraits of St George to Arab philosophy, from cannibalism to diplomacy, the authors interrogate what all too often may seem to be settled certainties, such as the difference between East and West, the invariable conflict between Islam and Christianity, and the 'rebirth' of European civilization from roots in classical Greece and Imperial Rome.
Great Britain—History.
World history.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Europe—History—1492-.
History of Britain and Ireland.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Early Modern Europe.