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Gerry Broughton Gerry Broughton est un historien britannique. Il est professeur d'études de la Renaissance, animateur de télévision et de radio et conservateur à l'Université Queen Mary de Londres.
Broughton écrit sur la littérature, l'histoire, la culture matérielle, le commerce et les relations entre l'Orient et l'Occident, en particulier aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Il adopte une approche interdisciplinaire, considérant l'art, la politique, l'histoire, l'écriture de voyage et la littérature. Son livre A History of the World in Twelve Maps (Allen Lane, 2012) a été traduit en douze langues. ] Son livre Selling the Goods of the Late King: Charles I and His Art Collection (Macmillan, 2006) a été nominé pour le prix Samuel Johnson (maintenant le prix Bailey Gifford). Il suggère sarcastiquement que la dispersion de la collection d'art de Charles Ier en 1649 était un geste démocratique digne d'émulation dans le monde moderne. Son livre de 2016 This East Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (Londres: Alan Lane, 2016) a été publié sur BBC Radio 4 et a remporté la couronne de non-fiction de l'Association des écrivains historiques (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.