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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...

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Autor principal: Bouwsma, William J. (William James), 1923-2004
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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