The Global Renaissance

The so-called global turn in the writing of history today involves increased interest not only in the rest of the world, but also in the global context of what used to be seen as European movements, such as the Renaissance, which was a fifteenth-to sixteenth-century movement to revive the culture of classical antiquity, Greek and Roman. We focus on the relation of the European Renaissance to the wider world to position the Renaissance in the contexts of other, farther-flung cultures, exploring the problems of where it came from, where it went, how it got there, and what happened to it on arrival.