Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance pdf

丽莎·安妮·布朗诺夫斯基（怡和）是英国近代早期的历史学家。 从 1990 年到 2011 年，她担任伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院文艺复兴研究百年教授和编辑生活与书信中心主任。 自 2008 年以来，她担任人类受精和胚胎学管理局 (HFEA) 主席] 她曾是皇家学会理事会成员，但于 2009 年 9 月辞去该职位。2012 年 9 月 1 日，她与她的研究中心及其工作人员一起搬迁 到伦敦大学学院 (UCL) 成为其人文学科跨学科研究中心的第一任主任。

Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance pdf 丽莎渣甸

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.