In this wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton shows the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement, cultural experimentation, and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status.-publisher description.

Revised edition of: The Renaissance bazaar. 2002.

A global Renaissance -- The humanist script -- Church and state -- Brave new worlds -- Science and philosophy -- Rewriting the Renaissance.