Research
His research on the religious, moral, and political writings of the Renaissance led to the publication of Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (1983) and Politics and culture in Renaissance Naples (1987). His more recent research has concentrated on global history and particularly on processes of cross-cultural interaction.
His book Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (1993) studies processes of cultural exchange and religious conversion before modern times, and his pamphlet Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship (1996) discusses the historiography of world history.
His interests included processes of cross-cultural interaction and cultural exchange in modern times.
In his works, he separates time into the following periods:
- The early complex societies, 3500 to 500 BCE
- The formation of classical societies, 500 BCE to 500 CE
- The postclassical era, 500 to 1000 CE
- An age of cross-cultural interaction, 1000 to 1500 CE
- The origins of global interdependence, 1500 to 1800 CE
- An age of revolution, industry and empire, 1750 to 1914 CE
- Contemporary global realignments, 1914 to present
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