Ethnocentrism, the One or the Many? A Critical Analysis of Jack Goody’s Theory of Renaissances Cover Image

Etnocentryzm: Czy Tylko Jeden? Krytyczna Analiza Teorii „Renesansów” Jacka Goody’ego
Ethnocentrism, the One or the Many? A Critical Analysis of Jack Goody’s Theory of Renaissances

Author(s): Konrad Bielecki
Subject(s): Cultural history, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Renaissance studies; structuralism in historiography; global history; universal history; comparative research;

Summary/Abstract: The text is a critical analysis of Jack Goody’s theory of renaissances, which takes a closer look at how the author understood the renaissance and related phenomena. The deconstruction of the author’s statements, set in a broader critique of structuralist global history, reveals the shortcomings of this approach and its ineffectiveness in more detailed case studies.

  • Issue Year: 126/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 425-452
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Polish