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OVERVIEW

There was a cultural dimension to the geographical and imperial expansion we have covered in the last few weeks. 1492 not only marks Columbus' first voyage to the Americas but also one of the first sculptures by Michelangelo. The Florentine artist was part of a wider movement in art, science and scholarship that shaped European life from the fourteenth century onwards. At its heart, the Renaissance was an effort to revive the culture of ancient Greece and Rome. This movement was mixed up with European adventures in Asia, Africa and the Americas, where comparable movements were already taking place. Europeans were not the only ones who rethought their relationship with the past.

The seminar will include a) a brief discussion of the lecture guided by the 'general questions' below, and b) a quiz covering the content from lectures two to ten of the term.

RECOMMENDED READING

Blitstein, Pablo Ariel. ‘â€Å¨¶Ä™.The Historical Journal, 2020, 1–23.

Burke, Peter, Luke Clossey, and Felipe Fernández-Armesto. ‘. Journal of World History 28, no. 1 (2017): 1–30.

McManus, Stuart Michael. ‘. The American Historical Review 127, no. 3 (2022): 1131–61.

FURTHER READING

Bauer, Stefan, and Simon Ditchfield. A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt’s Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered. Liverpool University Press, 2022.

Brotton, Jerry. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Burke, Peter. ‘. Theory, Culture & Society 26 (February 2010): 16–31.

Burke, Peter. The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries (Making of Europe): Centers and Peripheries. Wiley-Blackwell, 1998.

Burke, Peter. ‘. Cultural History9, no. 2 (2020): 156–70.

Campbell, Stephen J., and Stephanie Porras. The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art. Taylor & Francis, 2024.

Goody, Jack. Renaissances: The One or the Many? Cambridge University Press, 2009.

McManus, Stuart M. . Ideas in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Mignolo, Walter. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Pennock, Caroline Dodds, and Amanda Power. ‘. Past & Present 238, no. suppl_13 (2018): 88–115.

Poskett, James. Horizons: A Global History of Science. Penguin, 2022.

Ruggiero, Guido. A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Singh, Jyotsna G. A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Standaert, Nicolas. ‘The Transmission of Renaissance Culture in Seventeenth-Century China’. Renaissance Studies 17, no. 3 (2003): 367–91.

Tiangang, Li. ‘Chinese Renaissance: The Role of Early Jesuits in China’. In China and Christianity. Routledge, 2001.

Treadgold, Warren. Renaissances before the Renaissance: Cultural Revivals of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Stanford University Press, 1984.