Jack Goody

Renaissances

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Produktbeschreibung

Addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the heart of our notions of modernity?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780521768016
• ISBN-10: 0521768012
• Artikelnr.: 26553307

Autorenporträt

Jack Goody is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Recently knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to anthropology, Professor Goody has researched and taught all over the world, is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1980 was made a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The idea of a renaissance
2. Montpellier and medicine in Europe
3. Religion and the secular
4. Rebirth in Islam
5. Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism
6. Cultural continuity in India
7. Renaissance in China
8. Were renaissances only European?
Appendices.

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Introduction; 1. The idea of a renaissance; 2. Montpellier and medicine in Europe; 3. Religion and the secular; 4. Rebirth in Islam; 5. Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism; 6. Cultural continuity in India; 7. Renaissance in China; 8. Were renaissances only European?; Appendices.

Rezensionen

'Renaissances is a magisterial book.' Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement