Must We Divide History into Periods?
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval…
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Weitere Autoren: DeBevoise, Malcolm (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-17300-1
- EAN: 9780231173001
- Produktnummer: 18099125
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H14.9 cm x B18.5 cm x D2.0 cm 298 g
- Gewicht: 298
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014), for many years director of studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, was a highly influential member of the Annales School. Among his other works are Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages and Constructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology. M. B. DeBevoise translates from the French and Italian in every branch of scholarship.
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