Usually portrayed as a period dominated by the extraordinary achievements of great men, Margaret L. King recasts the Renaissance as a more complex cultural movement rooted in a unique urban society that was itself the product of many factors and interactions.
Italy and Rome; age of republics; human dignity and humanist studies; home and piazza; Church and people; statecraft and warcraft; crisis and beyond; Renaissance and the two Reformations; Renaissance beyond the Alps; Renaissance and new worlds.
