Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance pdf

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) était une historienne britannique du début de la période moderne. De 1990 à 2011, elle a été professeure centenaire d'études de la Renaissance et directrice du Centre for Editing Lives and Letters à Queen Mary, Université de Londres. Depuis 2008, elle était présidente de la Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] Elle était membre du Conseil de l'Institution royale, mais a démissionné de ce poste en septembre 2009. Le 1er septembre 2012, elle a déménagé avec son centre de recherche et son personnel. à l'University College London (UCL) pour devenir le premier directeur de son Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences humaines.

Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance pdf par 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.