Title: Amateur History Parading as Wish Fulfillment
Review: For an astute & royal trashing of this crassly enthusiastic & unknowing tripe see the first chapter/essay in the masterful Ingrid Rowland's From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred & the Profane in Renaissance.The very popularity (& initial promotional machinery) of Jardine's "argument" is telling enough: a self-serving & wholly wishful justification for modern consumerism.All too vulgar in the classic sense of the word.
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