Worldly goods : a new history of the Renaissance / Lisa Jardine.

1. Conditions for Change: Goods in Profusion -- 2. The Price of Magnificence -- 3. The Triumph of the Book -- 4. Learning to Be Civilized -- 5. New Expertise for Sale -- 6. A Culture of Commodities -- 7. Mapping the Heavens -- 8. Conspicuous Consumption. Abstract The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship, and the emergence of some of the greatest artists and thinke…