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Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East

By Gerald Maclean

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
1403992339, 9781403992338, 9780230523869
LCC
CB361 .R48 2005
Open Library ID
OL22710979M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1299816 bytes)
Pages
212\212
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This book tells the story of how a nineteenth-century concept, the Renaissance, has encouraged us to forget many of the artistic, social, religious, and cultural links between East and West characteristic of previous centuries. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to sodomy, from portraits of St. George to Arabic philosophy, from cannibalism to diplomacy, celebrated writers and eminent scholars interrogate what all too often seem to be settled certainties, such as the ''inevitable conflict'' between Islam and Christianity, and the ''rebirth of European'' civilizaton from exclusively European origins.

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