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Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) erken modern dönemin İngiliz tarihçisiydi. 1990'dan 2011'e kadar Londra Üniversitesi Queen Mary'de Yüzüncü Yıl Rönesans Çalışmaları Profesörü ve Yaşamları ve Mektupları Düzenleme Merkezi'nin direktörlüğünü yaptı. 2008'den beri İnsan Dölleme ve Embriyoloji Kurumu (HFEA) Başkanıydı] Kraliyet Enstitüsü Konseyi Üyesiydi, ancak Eylül 2009'da bu görevinden istifa etti. 1 Eylül 2012'de araştırma merkezi ve personeli ile birlikte yer değiştirdi University College London'a (UCL) Beşeri Bilimlerde Disiplinlerarası Araştırma Merkezi'nin ilk direktörü olmak için.

Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance kitap pdf oku ve indir 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.