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German historian Roeck (Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia; Civic Culture and Everyday Life in Early Modern Germany) presents a thorough and wide-ranging history of the European Renaissance, aiming to explain why it happened when and where it did. He starts with the lengthy 2,000-year cultural background that built up to the era that would be called the Renaissance, then brings it together with the more immediate factors that precipitated and enabled the surge of interest and investment in the arts and sciences in the 14th c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More