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.
Religion
Thomas A. Tweed
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Charles L. Cohen
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C. S. Lewis
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Simon Schama
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Julian Baggini
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Henry Chadwick
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Elizabeth Winkler
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Richard Bauckham
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Bart D. Ehrman
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Tom Holland
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Thomas Cahill
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