Renaissances : the one or the many? / Jack Goody.

Author/creator Goody, Jack
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Descriptionix, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The idea of a renaissance -- Montpellier and medicine in Europe -- Religion and the secular -- Rebirth in Islam (with S. Fennell) -- Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism -- Cultural continuity in India (with S. Fennell) -- Renaissance in China (with S. Fennell) -- Were renascences only European?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009031005
ISBN9780521768016 (hbk.)
ISBN0521768012 (hbk.)
ISBN9780521745161 (pbk.)
ISBN0521745160 (pbk.)