Renaissance lives portraits of an age

Main Author:	Rabb, Theodore K.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Pantheon Books, c1993.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Renaissance. Europe > Biography.

Physical Description:	xiii, 262 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
ISBN:	0679407812 :
Author Notes:	Theodore J. Rabinowicz was born in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia on March 5, 1937. He received bachelor's and master's degrees at Queen's College, Oxford and a Ph.D. in European and colonial American history from Princeton University. He taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, and Harvard University before joining the faculty at Princeton in 1967. He took emeritus status there in 2006. He was an expert in European history, who believed in an interdisciplinary approach to teaching history. In 1970, he was one of the founding editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He wrote numerous books including Enterprise and Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England, 1575-1630; Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age; The Last Days of the Renaissance and the March to Modernity; The Artist and the Warrior: Military History Through the Eyes of the Masters; and Why Does Michelangelo Matter?: A Historian's Questions About the Visual Arts. He died on January 7, 2019 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography)