Renaissances

The One or the Many?

By: Jack Goody

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Paperback | 1 March 2010

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One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and China, and emphasises what Europe owed to non-European influences. Renaissances continues that strand of historical analysis critical of Eurocentrism that Goody has developed in recent works like The East and the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2006). This book is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere. Not since Toynbee in The Study of History has anybody attempted quite what Jack Goody is undertaking in Renaissances, and the result is as accessible as it is ambitious.

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'Renaissances is a magisterial book.' Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement

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List of plates	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The idea of a renaissance	p. 7
Montpellier and medicine in Europe	p. 43
Religion and the secular	p. 62
Rebirth in Islam	p. 94
Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism	p. 145
Cultural continuity in India	p. 161
Renaissance in China	p. 198
Were renascences only European?	p. 241
Appendices
Chronologies of Islam, India and China	p. 275
Dynasties of Islam	p. 276
Events in Islamic history, 622-1334	p. 278
Periods of Indian history	p. 279
Chinese dynasties	p. 282
Four learned men	p. 284
The Bagre	p. 286
References	p. 288
Index	p. 304
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