About the Author

Edward Muir is Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University.

Reviews

Finding the roots of opera in the history of science is a task that would daunt even a polymath of Renaissance stature. Yet in The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance, Edward Muir plausibly explains how the skepticism taught by a professor at the University of Padua in the early 17th century fostered a musical revolution in neighboring Venice--and much else besides.
*Wall Street Journal*

Muir's small book (hard-covered but paperback in dimensions) set me thinking. It's a remarkably readable, cross-disciplinary study.
*Journal of Japanese Studies*