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Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté, and Harry Schnitker, eds., Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, C.1300–C.1550 (Leiden: Brill, 2010). xviii, 370 pp. ISBN 978-9-004-18334-6.

Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté, and Harry Schnitker, eds., Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and... Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté, and Harry Schnitker, eds., Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, C.1300­C.1550 (Leiden: Brill, 2010). xviii, 370 pp. ISBN 978-9-004-18334-6. What has the Renaissance contributed to the railway engine, the aeroplane, mass education and the ideal of popular government? We live in a world where Latin letters are remote from our present anxieties and pleasures, where even our art and architecture have left the norms set up in the sixteenth century. Beyond that, we live, for better and for worse, in one world: Africa, Asia, the Americas are daily present, politically and economically and culturally, in our Europe; as Europe is present elsewhere .... This modern world emerged out of its predecessor. Denys Hay, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, wrote these words in 1961.1 They are quoted by Stephen Bowd in his introduction to this volume of eighteen essays that arises from an international conference at Edinburgh in 2007. Hay's "conservative ambivalence," as Bowd puts it, might still be heard sometimes in the corridors of colleges and universities, though it would be countered, as Bowd proposes, by recent studies that focus less on the "myth" of the Renaissance or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Brill

Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté, and Harry Schnitker, eds., Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, C.1300–C.1550 (Leiden: Brill, 2010). xviii, 370 pp. ISBN 978-9-004-18334-6.

Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook , Volume 32 (1): 100 – Jan 1, 2012

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Brill
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Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0276-2854
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1874-9275
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10.1163/18749275-00000011
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Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté, and Harry Schnitker, eds., Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, C.1300­C.1550 (Leiden: Brill, 2010). xviii, 370 pp. ISBN 978-9-004-18334-6. What has the Renaissance contributed to the railway engine, the aeroplane, mass education and the ideal of popular government? We live in a world where Latin letters are remote from our present anxieties and pleasures, where even our art and architecture have left the norms set up in the sixteenth century. Beyond that, we live, for better and for worse, in one world: Africa, Asia, the Americas are daily present, politically and economically and culturally, in our Europe; as Europe is present elsewhere .... This modern world emerged out of its predecessor. Denys Hay, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, wrote these words in 1961.1 They are quoted by Stephen Bowd in his introduction to this volume of eighteen essays that arises from an international conference at Edinburgh in 2007. Hay's "conservative ambivalence," as Bowd puts it, might still be heard sometimes in the corridors of colleges and universities, though it would be countered, as Bowd proposes, by recent studies that focus less on the "myth" of the Renaissance or

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