The Other Renaissance : : From Copernicus to Shakespeare : how the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World

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Call Number: 948.02 St, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / Europe / Miscellaneous
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Prologue: lifting the lid -- Gutenberg -- Jan van Eyck -- Nicholas of Cusa -- Francis I and the French Renaissance -- A new literature: Rabelais -- Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation -- The rise of England -- The rise and rise of the Fuggers -- Copernicus -- Erasmus -- Dürer -- Straddling two ages: Paracelsus and Bruegel the Elder -- Versions of the true: Mercator and Viète -- Vesalius -- Catherine de' Medici -- Montaigne -- Elizabethan England -- Brahe and Kepler -- Europe expands -- Conclusion: a last legacy.
"An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart. It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, London, and even in Italy itself. The northern Renaissance, like the southern Renaissance, largely took place during the period between the end of the Medieval age (circa mid-14th century) and the advent of the Age of Enlightenment (circa end of 17th century). Following a sequence of major figures, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de' Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck, and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this "Other Renaissance" played as significant a role as the Italian renaissance in bringing our modern world into being"-- Amazon.

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