# The Renaissance Complete

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- Authors: [Margaret Aston](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-aston)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-08-03

## Description

No period has been more discussed, dissected and argued over than the Renaissance, and every age has reconstructed it in its own image. Today’s emphasis is on its complexity – the way ideas, politics, religion, society, art and science depended upon and affected one another. The Renaissance Complete does away with watertight divisions by means of a lucid, innovatory system of cross-references and brings the image to centre stage. The fascinating range of topics covered includes the revival of classical learning, the printing press, the rise of the nation-state, philosophy and the role of women. The scope is all-embracing: Italy, France, Spain, Britain, Germany and the northern countries; courts and patrons, painters and sculptors, churchmen and traders, men, women and children. Over 1,000 illustrations are carefully focused on over 100 key topics, subject-matter taking precedence over art history. An impressive information resource provides biographies, timelines, bibliography, a gazetteer of museums and galleries and an illustrated glossary.

## Editions

### The Renaissance Complete

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0028-459-9
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2009-08-03
- Language: en_GB