Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East

Gerald M. MacLean (ed.)

ISBN 10: 1403992339 / ISBN 13: 9781403992338

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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xxiii, 187 pages ; 22 cm. Contents: 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403992339
• ISBN 13: 9781403992338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
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Synopsis

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.

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