Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance pdf

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) fue una historiadora británica del período moderno temprano. De 1990 a 2011 fue Profesora Centenaria de Estudios del Renacimiento y Directora del Centro de Edición de Vidas y Letras en Queen Mary, Universidad de Londres. Desde 2008 fue Presidenta de la Autoridad de Embriología y Fertilización Humana (HFEA)] Fue miembro del Consejo de la Institución Real, pero renunció a ese cargo en septiembre de 2009. El 1 de septiembre de 2012, se mudó con su centro de investigación y su personal. a University College London (UCL) para convertirse en el primer director de su Centro de Investigación Interdisciplinaria en Humanidades.

Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance pdf por Lisa Jardine

In this provocative and wholly absorbing work, Lisa Jardine offers a radical interpretation of the Renaissance, arguing that the creation of culture during that time was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth — that the expansion of commerce spurred the expansion of thought. As Jardine boldly states, "The seeds of our own exuberant multiculturalism and bravura consumerism were planted in the European Renaissance." While Europe's royalty and merchants competed with each other to acquire works of art, vicious commercial battles were being fought over who should control the centers for trade around the globe. Jardine encompasses Renaissance culture from its western borders in Christendom to its eastern reaches in the Islamic Ottoman Empire, bringing this opulent epoch to life in all its material splendor and competitive acquisitiveness. "A savvy, street-smart history of the Renaissance."—Dan Cryer, Newsday "Jardine's lively book is specific and down-to-earth. A particularly fascinating section recalls how books suddenly ceased to be principally collector's items or aids to scholars and became the sixteenth century's Internet, dispensing fact and fancy to high and low.