Looking at the
Renaissance
Further Reading
The
Renaissance
P. Burke, The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries
(Blackwell, 1998)
L. Jardine, Wordly
Goods (Macmillan, 1996)
J. Hale, The
Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (Harper Collins, 1993)
C.G. Nauert, Humanism
and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (Cambridge University Press,
1995)
R. Porter and M. Teich
(eds), The Renaissance in a National Context (Cambridge University
Press, 1992)
Economic and
Political Context
S. Brigden, New Worlds, Lost Worlds: the Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603
(Allen Lane, 2000)
C.R. Friedrichs, The
Early Modern City 1450-1750 (Longman, 1995)
D. Hay, Europe in the
14th and 15th Centuries (Longman, 1989)
M. Strachan, The Life
and Adventures of Thomas Coryat (Oxford University Press, 1962)
Religious
context
R.J. Henderson, Piety and Charity in late Medieval Florence
(University of Chicago Press, 1997)
F. Oakley, The
Western Church in the Later Middle Ages (Cornell University Press and
London, 1979)
B. Pullan, Rich and
Poor in Renaissance Venice (Blackwell, 1971)
R.N. Swanson, Religion
and Devotion in Europe c.1215-c.1515 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Renaissance
art
M. Baxandall, Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy, 2nd. ed
(Oxford University Press, 1988)
A. Cole, The Art of
the Italian Renaissance (Everyman Art Library, Orion, 1995)
A. Graham-Dixon,
Renaissance (BBC Worldwide, 1999)
C. Harbison, The Art
of the Northern Renaissance (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1995)
C.E. King,
Renaissance Women Patrons (Manchester University Press, 1998)
Renaissance
Science and Technology
E. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
(Cambridge University Press, 1983)
R. Porter, The
Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History from antiquity to the
present (Harper Collins, 1997)
J. Sawday, The Body
Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture
(Routledge, 1995)
K. Park, Doctors and
Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence (Princeton, 1985)
