Renaissance: a short history
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TextPublication details: New York Modern library chronicles 2000Description: 198 pISBN: 9780812966190Subject(s): Renaissance | Italy | civilization | Europe | intellectual life | civilization, medievalDDC classification: 940.21 Summary: The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. But what was it? In this masterly work, the incomparable Paul Johnson tells us. He explains the economic, technological, and social developments that provide a backdrop to the age’s achievements and focuses closely on the lives and works of its most important figures. A commanding short narrative of this vital period, The Renaissance is also a universally profound meditation on the wellsprings of innovation.
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| 940.2 MAH/H History of modern Europe since 1789 | 940.2 MAN/H History of modern Europe (c. 1780- 1939) | 940.2 SCH/M Martin Luther : | 940.21 JOH/R Renaissance: a short history | 940.21 JOH/R The Renaissance : a short history | 940.22 WIE/E Early modern Europe 1450-1789 | 940.25 ENL Enlightenment: a sourse and reader |
The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. But what was it? In this masterly work, the incomparable Paul Johnson tells us. He explains the economic, technological, and social developments that provide a backdrop to the age’s achievements and focuses closely on the lives and works of its most important figures. A commanding short narrative of this vital period, The Renaissance is also a universally profound meditation on the wellsprings of innovation.
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