num_pages: 574
description: This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.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.
language: English
title: A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance
titlecomplete: A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance
genres: History
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell