The reopening of the Western mind the resurgence of intellectual life from the end of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment
Prologue. The collapse of learning -- The saving of the texts, 500- -- Charlemagne restores the discipline of learning -- Conformity and diversity in the Christian communities of the late first millennium -- The challenges of Christian leadership. Authority and dissent in the medieval church, 1000-...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Alfred A. Knopf
2023
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| Ausgabe: | First American edition |
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Civilization, Medieval
> Civilization, Modern
> Classical history / classical civilisation
> European history
> Europäische Geschichte
> HISTORY / Civilization
> HISTORY / Europe / General
> HISTORY / Social History
> Social & cultural history
> Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
> Europe
> Intellectual life
> Civilization
> Europa
> Geistesleben
> Geschichte 500-1700
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| Zusammenfassung: | Prologue. The collapse of learning -- The saving of the texts, 500- -- Charlemagne restores the discipline of learning -- Conformity and diversity in the Christian communities of the late first millennium -- The challenges of Christian leadership. Authority and dissent in the medieval church, 1000- -- Abelard and the battle for reason -- The cry of libertas, the rebirth of the city-state -- 'Completely new, without any real precedent and with an exceptional historical destiny' : success and failure within the medieval university -- The complexities of medieval philosophy : a reopening or a dead-end? -- The glimmerings of a scientific revival, 1200-1350? -- New directions in literature and political thought : Dante, Marsilius and Boccaccio and their worlds -- 'I snarl at the stupid Aristotelians' : humanism and the challenge to the scholastics -- 'It is but in our own day that men dare boast that they see the dawn of better things' : the exuberance of Florentine humanism -- The flowering of the Florentine Renaissance -- Plato re-enters the western mind -- The printing press : what was published and why? -- Filling the vacuum : the loss of papal authority and the rise of the laity, 1350- -- How Europe learned to see again : Leonardo and Vasalius -- Exploring the natural world in the sixteenth century -- Imagining princely politics, from utopia to the Machiavellian prince -- Broadening horizons : from the Laocoon to the academies. Recovering the ancient world -- Montaigne and Hamlet : peace or turmoil in the solitary soul? -- Defining global space : the mapping of the new world -- Encountering the peoples of the 'Newe founde worldes', 1492- -- Reformation : a restoration of Christian authority? -- The world of Catholic renewal -- Absolutist France versus the Dutch Republic : a study of contrasts in seventeenth century politics -- The seventeenth century : the most revolutionary century in the history of modern Britain? -- Thinking politically. Envisaging an ideal society in the seventeenth century -- From natural philosophy into science. The astronomers -- Was there an English scientific revolution? -- 'Once in a lifetime we must demolish everything' : (Descartes) did the seventeenth century see the making of the modern mind? -- Bringing it all together : was there really 'a reopening of the western mind?. "A history of European intellectual life from 500 AD to 1700 AD"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | "THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF." Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 803 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780525659365 978-0-525-65936-5 |