The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 1, The Renaissance, 1493-1520

In a preface written for the paperback edition, Professor Hay examines some of the changes in Renaissance scholarship since the first publication of this volume in 1957. Successive chapters examine the social and economic structure of a continent about to establish trade and colonies in the New World, the intellectual and artistic movements which made up the Renaissance, the position of the Church on the eve of the Reformation, the political inheritance of the Middle Ages, with its rising nation states, and the growth of the Ottoman Empire. This volume examines the social and economic structure of a continent establishing trade and colonies in the New World, the intellectual and artistic movements which made up the Renaissance, the position of the Church on the eve of the Reformation, the political inheritance of the Middle Ages, and the growth of the Ottoman Empire. A comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the world from 1493 to 1945 v. 1. The Renaissance, 1493-1520 / planned by G.R. Potter ; edited with a new preface by Denys Hay. This volume studies the period of the Renaissance, 1493-1520.