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Re-Orienting the Renaissance

Cultural Exchanges with the East
By:G. Maclean
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403992338
eText ISBN:9780230523869
Edition:0
Copyright:2005
Format:Page Fidelity

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This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to Venetian publishing, from portraits of St George to Arab philosophy, from cannibalism to diplomacy, the authors interrogate what all too often may seem to be settled certainties, such as the difference between East and West, the invariable conflict between Islam and Christianity, and the 'rebirth' of European civilization from roots in classical Greece and Imperial Rome.