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It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy However a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time This Other Renaissance was initially centred on the city of Bruges in Flanders modern Belgium but its influence was soon being felt in France the German states England and even in Italy itself

Following a sequence of major figures including Copernicus Gutenberg Luther Catherine de Medici Rabelais van Eyck and Shakespeare Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this Other Renaissance played as significant a role as the Italian renaissance in bringing our modern world into being