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Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East
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.
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Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East
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.
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Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East

Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East

Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East

Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349543502
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 10/11/2005
Edition description: 1st ed. 2005
Pages: 187
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

JERRY BROTTON Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE Historian and writer
CAROLINE FINKEL Historian and writer
DEBORAH HOWARD Professor of Architectural History, University of Cambridge, UK
ROBERT IRWIN Writer and Research Associate, History Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
PHILIP MANSEL Historian and writer
NABIL MATAR Professor of English, Head of Department of Humanities and Communication, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
BARNABY ROGERSON Historian and writer
PHILIP SCHWYZER Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UK

Table of Contents

Foreword; W.Dalrymple Introduction: Re-Orienting the Renaissance; G.Maclean The Status of the Oriental Traveller in Renaissance Venice; D.Howard St George Between East and West; J.Brotton Mummy is Become Merchandise: Literature and the Anglo-Egyptian Mummy Trade in the Seventeenth-Century; P.Schwyzer A Double Perspective and a Lost Rivalry: Ogier de Busbeq and Melchior Lork in Instanbul; B.Rogerson The French Renaissance in Search of the Ottoman Empire; P.Mansel Petrarch and 'That Mad Dog Averroes'; R.Irwin Arabic Views of Europeans, 1578-1727: 'The Western Mediterranean'; N.Matar 'The Treacherous Cleverness of Hindsight': Myths of Ottoman Decay; C.Finkel
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