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Article: The European Renaissance Centres and Peripheries.(Review)
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- September 1, 1999
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The European Renaissance Centres and Peripheries Peter Burke Blackwell xi + 284pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0631198458
THIS IS A DELIGHTFULLY NIMBLE BOOK distinguished by the coherence of its general structure and the clarity of its connections, qualities which are complemented by the vivid deployment of compressed detail. It is an original work on how an Italian phenomenon became genuinely European. Thus, the complex of cultural changes that began in Italy can be defined not only in what it took from ancient Greece and Rome, but in the absorption and rejection of Byzantine, Arab and medieval influences. The impact of this culture -- or perhaps more accurately ...