I would strongly recommend Jerry Brotton's "The Renaissance Bazaar" on this topic. It's an excellent book which emphasizes Renaissance Europe's debt to "the East", and especially to the Ottomans. I differ from Brotton slightly, though, in that I would suggest that there was a multipolar renaissance that also took place in Iberia, and that owed a good deal to the influence of the Almohads in twelfth-century Seville. I would therefore possibly recommend my own book (!) "The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance".
@Simon, Thx, looks very interesting. Will add it to the reading list.
I use Brotton regularly when I am teaching "Renaissance Europe" at Hofstra, and students generally gain a great deal from it.
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