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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Polarities of Western Culture
- The Two Faces of Humanism: Stoicism and Augustinianism in Renaissance Thought
- Changing Assumptions in Later Renaissance Culture
- The Venetian Interdict and the Problem of Order
- The Secularization of Society in the Seventeenth Century
- Lawyers and Early Modern Culture
- The Durable Renaissance
- Anxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture
- The Politics of Commynes
- Postel and the Significance of Renaissance Cabalism
- Renaissance and Reformation: An Essay on Their Affinities and Connections
- Venice, Spain, and the Papacy: Paolo Sarpi and the Renaissance Tradition
- Venice and the Political Education of Europe
- History and Historians
- Three Types of Historiography in Post-Renaissance Italy
- Gallicanism and the Nature of Christendom
- The Waning of the Middle Ages Revisited
- From History of Ideas to History of Meaning
- The Renaissance and the Drama of Western History
- Essays in Applied History
- Models of the Educated Man
- Socrates and the Confusion of the Humanities
- Christian Adulthood
- Coda
- The History Teacher as Mediator.