{"id":20183,"date":"2016-08-09T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T08:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20183"},"modified":"2016-08-09T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T09:01:25","slug":"was-there-really-only-one-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20183","title":{"rendered":"Was there really only one Renaissance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read a book called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Age-Discovery-Navigating-Rewards-Renaissance\/dp\/147293637X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1470733226&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=%22Age+Of+Discovery%22\">&#8220;Age Of Discovery&#8221;<\/a><\/em> written by Ian Goldin &amp; Chris Kutarna.\u00a0This impressive and inspiring work is sub-titled &#8220;&#8221;Navigating The Risks And Rewards Of Our New Renaissance&#8221;. The theme of the book is that, since around 1990, we have been living in a time which is in effect a New Renaissance and we should learn some of the lessons from the original Renaissance of 1450-1550.<\/p>\n<p>However, in first chapter of the book, the authors argue that renaissances can be you found in every civilisation. As well as the European Renaissance, they instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mayan Classic Period of 300-900<\/li>\n<li>The early centuries of Korea&#8217;s Choson Dynasty (1392-1897)<\/li>\n<li>The Islamic Golden Age from 750-1260<\/li>\n<li>China&#8217;s Tang Dynasty of 618-907<\/li>\n<li>India&#8217;s Gupta Empire of 320-550<\/li>\n<li>The Mughal Empire under Akbar the Great (1556-1605)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We should avoid adopting a superior Western-centric view of history and appreciate that many parts of the world have exhibited periods of great cultural and technological flourishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read a book called &#8220;Age Of Discovery&#8221; written by Ian Goldin &amp; Chris Kutarna.\u00a0This impressive and inspiring work is sub-titled &#8220;&#8221;Navigating The Risks And Rewards Of Our New Renaissance&#8221;. The theme of the book is that, since around 1990, we have been living in a time which is in effect a New Renaissance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20195,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20183\/revisions\/20195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}