Renaissance Transformations" is a distinctive collection original essays exploring the dynamic cultural, intellectual, and social processes that shaped literary writing and its world between 1500 and 1650. Acutely attentive to the complexities of confronting the past, twelve leading scholars of the Renaissance engage with the interactions among texts, material culture, ideas, and literary form. Divided into three parts: making writing, shaping communities, and embodying change, the volume demonstrates the "making" of Renaissance writing, incorporating matters of authorship, originality, circulation, and the conception of a "text." Drawing on ideas about process and provisionality, the world of the Renaissance is shown to be protean rather than fixed.