Re-orienting the Renaissance
Subtitle: cultural exchanges with the East
By: edited by Gerald MacLean ; with a foreword by William Dalrymple.
Contributors: MacLean, Gerald M., 1952-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Renaissance.; East and West.
Description: "This book brings together a range of essays from leading scholars and writers, providing a fascinating and original approach to the Renaissance which challenges settled certainties, such as the difference between East and West, the invariable conflict between Islam and Christianity, the 'rebirth' of European civilization from roots in classical Greece and Imperial Rome, and points the way for a comprehensive re-orientation of our thinking about the Renaissance."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / George MacLean; title: The status of the Oriental traveller in Renaissance Venice / Deborah Howard; title: St George between East and West / Jerry Brotton; title: Mummy is become merchandise / Philip Schwyzer; title: A double perspective and a lost rivalry / Barnaby Rogerson; title: The French Renaissance in search of the Ottoman empire / Philip Mansel; title: Petrarch and 'that mad dog Averroes' / Robert Irwin; title: Arab views of Europeans, 1578-1727 / Nabil Matar; title: The treacherous cleverness of hindsight / Caroline Finkel.