• critical theory
  • partial cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 24 x 17 cm.
  • 470 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0385476841

Worldly Goods : A New History of the Renaissance

Lisa Jardine

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"Worldly Goods is a remarkable achievement. Most previous attempts to explain the Renaissance, and they are many, have concentrated on the fashioning of a new cultural identity. Jardine is concerned with that, too, but her approach is via the material culture of the period. By looking at commodities, which range from pictures to printed books, from maps to jeweled helmets, at who these things were by and form whom, Lisa Jardine offers the reader not only a lively and sometimes startling vision of a world in transition, but also an entirely new approach to the Renaissance." -- from back dust jacket. Includes list of illustrations, bibliography, and an index. Printed in black-and-white.

New York / London / Toronto / Sydney / Auckland, NY / United Kingdom / Canada / Australia / New Zealand: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday / Bantam Dell Publishing Group Inc.,
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