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: 978-0-231-17301-8
- EAN: 9780231173018
- Produktnummer: 21981420
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H13.9 cm x B17.7 cm x D1.1 cm 182 g
- Gewicht: 182
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Jaques Le Goff (1924 -2014) was the Director of Studies and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Among his other books are Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages andConstructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology.
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