The History of the Renaissance World
From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume-the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World-chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition.Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and Greek rationality blossom while the Inquisition gathers strength. As kings and emperors continue to insist on their divine rights, ordinary people all over the world seize power: the lingayats of India, the Jacquerie of France, the Red Turbans of China, and the peasan…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-05976-2
- EAN: 9780393059762
- Produktnummer: 13968114
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 816 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B15.6 cm x D3.9 cm 1'146 g
- Abbildungen: 22 illustrations, 96 maps
- Gewicht: 1146
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.
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