Details
- ISBN 9780385476843 / 0385476841
- Title Worldly Goods
- Author Lisa Jardine
- Category European History
Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500
General & World History
Economic History - Format Hardcover
- Year 1996
- Pages 470
- Publisher Nan A. Talese
- Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Language English
- Dimensions 13mm x 19mm x 243mm
This eye-opening tour through the Renaissance reveals that the creation of culture was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth. Jardine shows how the newly affluent lords of trade and mercantilism produced a demand for art, education, and literature, making the entrepreneur, in many ways, the true Renaissance man. 60 illustrations. of color plates.
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