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.
This book addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the heart of our notions of modernity?
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.
'Renaissances is a magisterial book.' Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement
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