Contesting the Renaissance (Contesting the Past)
Book Details
Author(s)
William Caferro
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405123699
ISBN-13
9781405123693
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#1,671,113
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Description
In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.
- An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance
- Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance
- Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith
- Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studies
