A usable past : essays in European cultural history /
The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1990.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, touching on such topics as political thought and historiography, metaphysical and practical conceptions of order, the relevance of Renaissance humanism to Protestant thought, the secularization of European culture, the contributions of particular professional groups to European civilization, and the. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 444 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520910140 0520910141 058514768X 9780585147680 9780520064386 9780520069909 0520064380 0520069900 |