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Title
Worldly goods - a new history of the Renaissance

Author
Lisa Jardine

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Macmillan

Language
English

UK Publication Date
19971024

Description

Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews and Sheffield Hallam University. She is a Trustee of the V&A Museum, a member of the Councils of the AHRC and of the Royal Institution, and sits on the Michael Faraday Prize Committee and Library Committee of the Royal Society.

Professor Jardine writes and reviews for all the major UK national newspapers and magazines and for the Washington Post, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She is a regular writer and presenter of 'A point of view', on BBC Radio 4. She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize.

She has published over fifty scholarly articles in refereed journals, and seventeen full-length books, both for an academic and for a general readership. She is the author of a number of best-selling general books including Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, and biographies of Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. She is currently completing a book on Anglo-Dutch reciprocal influence in the seventeenth century, entitled Going Dutch.

Type
BOOK

Keyword Index
Renaissance.|Material culture - Europe - History.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
470

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