This work introduces the richly varied materials and phenomena as well as the different methodologies through which the Renaissance is studied today both in the English-speaking world and in Italy. The chapters are organized around axes of humanism, historiography, and cultural production, and cover a wide variety of areas including literature, science, music, religion, technology, artistic production, and economics. The diffusion of the Renaissance throughout Italian territories is emphasized.

This volume brings together some of the most exciting Renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.

This work provides a comprehensive introduction to early modern Europe in a global context. Volume 1 examines ‘Peoples and Place’, with sections on structural factors such as climate, demography, languages, literacy, printing, and the revolution in information; on social and economic developments; and on the nature of belief in the widest sense, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam as well as Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

This work is a comprehensive introduction to early modern Europe in a global context. Volume 2 is devoted to ‘Cultures and Power’, opens with chapters on humanism, political theory, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine ‘Europe beyond Europe’, with the transformation of contacts with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power and the conflicts which accompanied this.

Authoritative companion to the Renaissance, covering not only Italy but developments in the arts, sciences, and ideas across Europe.

A survey of European history from 1450, the beginning of the print revolution, to 1789 and the French Revolution.