Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East

by Gerald MacLean (Editor)

This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to Venetian publishing, from portraits of St George to Arab philosophy, from cannibalism to diplomacy, the authors interrogate what all too often may seem to be settled certainties, such as the difference between East and West, the invariable conflict between Islam and Christianity, and the 'rebirth' of European civilization from roots in classical Greece and Imperial Rome.

210 pages, Hardcover

First published October 11, 2005

About the author

Gerald MacLean is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter, founder and co-director of Exeter Turkish Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Royal Historical Society of London. He lives in Exeter.