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Historians have conventionally viewed intellectual and artistic achievement as a seamless progression in a single direction, with the Renaissance, as identified by Jacob Burckhardt, as the root and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300085370
ISBN13:9780300085372
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.48 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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New and focused
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hapters consider the yearning for order
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Historians have viewed Western cultural achievement as a singular progression; William Bouwsma's Waning Of The Renaissance rethinks the view, arguing that the period from 1550-1640 was a phase of complex ambivalence which stimulated cultural change. Chapters consider the yearning for order, social and political discontents of the times, and the process of change.
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