Ed., John Jeffries Martin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume in the successful Routledge Worlds series offers as sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world. Collating forty essays from the fields leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces on one hand, and on the other, a cluster of interrelated practices including painting, sculpture, humanism and science, in which the elites engaged. Unique in its balance of emphasis on both elite and popular culture, on humanism and society, and on women as well as men, The Renaissance World grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade,. Lavishlyillustrated and nicely topped and tailed with sections on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and on the end of the Renaissance and its lasting influence, students and scholars of history and the Renaissance will find this an invaluable read which they will dip in to again and again.