The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

Introduction / Gordon Campbell -- Humanism and the classical tradition / Peter Mack -- War and the state : c.1400-c.1650 / David Parrott -- Religion / Stella Fletcher -- The civilisation of the Renaissance / François Quiviger -- Art and architecture in Italy and beyond / Francis Ames-Lewis -- Art and architecture in Flanders and beyond / Paula Nuttall and Richard Williams -- The performing arts : festival, music, drama, dance / Margaret M. McGowan -- Vernacular literature / Warren Boutcher -- Craft and technology in Renaissance Europe / Pamela O. Long and Andrew Morrall -- The Renaissance of science / Paula Findlen -- The global Renaissance / Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Peter Burke.;The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation--from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy, to the English literary Renaissance in the first half of the seventeenth century.