| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Jerry Brotton. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 243. $30.00.

Only a brave scholar would nowadays assert that his book was the first "to suggest how an understanding of the impact of the east transforms our understanding of the Renaissance" (p. vii) without the support of notes. But Jerry Brotton's synthetic treatment of the eastern Mediterranean origins of many European accomplishments in art, letters, science, and technology during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is not likely to satisfy specialists in those various fields. Not much here will surprise specialists in Renaissance art and early modern societies. What will, however, come as a surprise is an odd combination of historical cliché and new insights into the infiltration and reception of Islamic and African cultural expressions in Renaissance Europe that have no references to back them up. . . .

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