La Renaissance Decentree: Actes Du Colloque De Geneve, 28-29 Septembre 2006

These articles present an interdisciplinary look at the decentralizing dynamics of the Renaissance in fields such as cosmology, philosophy, literature, painting, geography, botany and religious polemics. The analyses suggest that the questioning of ancient models did not abolish the idea of center, but created new centers and concepts of centrality, without necessarily seeking to be subversive. Considered together, they indicate a new mutating epistemological landscape and future ruptures. French text.