In this deft recasting of the Renaissance story, Margaret L King weaves together
the many strands that made up this complex cultural movement. By marrying the
best of earlier scholarship with more recent research, King shows Renaissance
history is today as much abou the study of power, wealth, gender, class, honour,
shame, ritual and other categories of investigation as the literary and artistic
achievements of the uniquely urban society that spread from Italy to the rest of
Europe. Ultimately, she points to the multiple ways in which this seminal epoch
influenced the later developments of Western culture and society.
About the Author
Margaret L. King is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the
Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books
on women, humanism and Venice in Renaissance, and is currently editor-inchief
of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by
Oxford biographers.
