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Informationen zum Autor Jack Goody is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Recently knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to anthropology, Professor Goody has researched and taught all over the world, is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1980 was made a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klappentext Addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the heart of our notions of modernity? Zusammenfassung Distinguished social scientist Jack Goody addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the heart of our notions of modernity? Goody scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas! emphasising what Europe owed to non-European influences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The idea of a renaissance; 2. Montpellier and medicine in Europe; 3. Religion and the secular; 4. Rebirth in Islam; 5. Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism; 6. Cultural continuity in India; 7. Renaissance in China; 8. Were renaissances only European?; Appendices.
