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Jerry BroughtonJerry Broughton es un historiador británico. Es profesor de Estudios del Renacimiento, presentador de radio y televisión y curador en la Universidad Queen Mary de Londres.
Broton escribe sobre literatura, historia, cultura material, comercio y relaciones Este-Oeste, especialmente en los siglos XVI y XVII. Adopta un enfoque interdisciplinario, analizando el arte, la política, la historia, la escritura de viajes y la literatura. Su libro A History of the World in Twelve Maps (Allen Lane, 2012) ha sido traducido a doce idiomas. ] Su The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection (MacMillan, 2006) fue nominado para el premio Samuel Johnson (ahora el premio Bailey Gifford). Propone sarcásticamente que la dispersión de la colección de arte de Carlos I en 1649 fue un movimiento democrático digno de emular en el mundo contemporáneo. Su libro de 2016 This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (Londres: Alan Lane, 2016) fue serializado en BBC Radio 4 y ganó la Corona de no ficción de la Asociación de Escritores Históricos (2017).

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The Renaissance range in changes at a breathtaking pace, changes that shape the world to this day. Now Jerry Brotton deftly captures this remarkable age, in a book that places Europe's great flowering in a revealing global context. It was Europe's contact with the outside world, Brotton argues, especially with the rich and cultivated East, that made the Renaissance what it was. Indeed, Europeans saw themselves through the mirror of the East--it was during this age, for instance, that they first spoke of themselves as "Europeans." Here is cultural history of the best kind, as Brotton muses on the meanings of Holbein's painting "The Ambassadors"--which is virtually a catalog of the international influences on Europe--or on the Arabic influence in the burgeoning sciences of astronomy and geography. This global approach offers revealing new insights into such men as Dante and Leonardo da Vinci and highlights the international influences behind Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Along with fresh and original discussions of well-known figures from Copernicus to Dürer to Shakespeare, Brotton offers a far-reaching exploration that looks at paintings and technology, patterns of trade and the printed page, as he illuminates the overarching themes that defined the age. From architecture to medicine, from humorists to explorers, the teeming world of the Renaissance comes to life in this thoughtful, insightful, and beautifully written book, which offers us a timely perspective on the Renaissance as a moment of global inclusiveness that still has much to teach us today.