The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance. Ed. Gordon Campbell.

• Axel Stähler

In about 4,000 A–Z entries, composed almost single-handedly by the author himself, Gordon Campbell proposes to describe in his Dictionary of the Renaissance the “cultural history of a long Renaissance” (vii) whose temporal boundaries, around a core period between 1415 and 1618, he sensibly assumes to be “permeable” (vii). Culture is “broadly conceived” by Campbell and includes “subjects such as law, theology, medicine, science, and elements of popular culture as well as the high culture of art, architecture, gardens, literature, and music.” (vii) Geographically, the book’s scope comprises “countries whose cultures were touched in significant measure by the revival of classical learning” (vii), especially those underrepresented in earlier English-language sources.

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