The Renaissance World Book

I From Christendom to Europe
1. Rome at the Center of a Civilization
2. The Ottoman Empire and Europe
3. Africa, American and Conquest
4. Europe at the Center of the World
5. The IDea of Humanity in the Age of Discovery
II Economic and Social Tranformations
1. Peasants and the Agrarian Regime
2. The Growth of Cities
3. The Black Death: Tragedy and Transformation
4. Social Hierachies and the Family
5. The manufacture and Movement of Goods
III Power and Politics
1. Monarch and the Court
2. Republics
3. Empires
4. Diplomacy and Espionage
5. War
IV Authority and Beliefs
1. Places of the Sacred
2. Witchcraft
3. Religions on the Margins: Jews, Heretics and Muslims
4. Ideas of Reform
5. Christianity Abroad
V Passions of the Intellect
1. Encounters with Antiquity
2. New Worlds and the Remaking of Knowledge
3. Anatomies North and South
4. Science and the People
5. Machiavelli and More
VI The Visual Arts Between Patronage and Power
1. Patronage and Virtue
2. Ways of Seeing
3. Art and Ritual
4. Portraits and Self-Portraits
5. Representations of Power
VII Pleasures of the Imagination
1. Authors and Readers
2. Creativity and the imagination
3. Genres of Pleasure
4. Music and the Court
5. Shakespeare
VIII After the Renaissance
1. Economy and Society at the End of the Renaissance
2. The Fragmentation of Belief
3. The Politics of Order
4. The Sun at the Center of the World
5. In the Ruins: The Future of the Past
Epilogue
Index