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Freeman, Charles, 1947-
Subjects
Civilization, Western.
Middle Ages.
Renaissance.
Enlightenment.
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization.
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Europe -- History -- 1492-1648.
Europe -- History -- 1648-1789.
Europe -- History -- 11th century.
Europe -- History -- 12th century.
Europe -- History -- 13th century.
Europe -- History -- 14th century.
Europe -- History -- 15th century
Europe -- History -- 16th century
Europe -- History -- 17th century
Europe -- Intellectual life.
Europe -- Civilization.
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Freeman, Charles, 1947-
Civilization, Western.
Middle Ages.
Renaissance.
Enlightenment.
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization.
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Europe -- History -- 1492-1648.
Europe -- History -- 1648-1789.
Europe -- History -- 11th century.
Europe -- History -- 12th century.
Europe -- History -- 13th century.
Europe -- History -- 14th century.
Europe -- History -- 15th century
Europe -- History -- 16th century
Europe -- History -- 17th century
Europe -- Intellectual life.
Europe -- Civilization.
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The reopening of the Western mind : the resurgence of intellectual life from the end of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment / Charles Freeman.
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Freeman, Charles, 1947-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Call #:
940
.25
F855r
Subjects
Civilization, Western.
Middle Ages.
Renaissance.
Enlightenment.
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization.
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Europe -- History -- 1492-1648.
Europe -- History -- 1648-1789.
Europe -- History -- 11th century.
Europe -- History -- 12th century.
Europe -- History -- 13th century.
Europe -- History -- 14th century.
Europe -- History -- 15th century
Europe -- History -- 16th century
Europe -- History -- 17th century
Europe -- Intellectual life.
Europe -- Civilization.
ISBN:
9780525659365 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Awakening, a history of the Western mind AD 500-1700.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
803 p. : ill. (mostly color), col. maps ;
25
cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500-1700, by Apollo, an imprint of Head of Zeus Ltd., London, in 2020"--T. p. verso.
Charles Freeman is an academic historian and the author of eight previous books. In 2005 he was appointed to the editorial board of the Blue Guides as Historical Consultant and has written the historical introductions to several new editions. He lives in Suffolk, England.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 746-781) and index.
Contents:
Prologue. The collapse of learning -- 1. The saving of the texts, 500-750 -- 2. Charlemagne restores the discipline of learning -- 3. Conformity and diversity in the Christian communities of the late first millennium -- 4. Authority and dissent in the medieval church, 1000-1250 -- 5. Abelard and the battle for reason -- 6. The cry of libertas, the rebirth of the city-state -- 7. Success and failure within the medieval university -- 8. Medieval philosophy : a reopening or a dead-end? -- 9. The glimmerings of a scientific revival, 1200-1350 -- 10. Dante, Marsilius and Boccaccio and their worlds -- 11. Humanism and the challenge to the scholastics -- 12. The exuberance of Florentine humanism -- 13. The flowering of the Florentine Renaissance -- 14. Plato re-enters the western mind -- 15. The printing press : what was published and why? -- 16. The loss of papal authority and the rise of the laity, 1350-1550 -- 17. Defining global space : the mapping of the New World -- 18. How Europe learned to see again : Leonardo and Vasalius -- 19. Exploring the natural world in the sixteenth century -- 20. Imagining princely politics, from Utopia to the Machiavellian ruler -- 21. Broadening horizons : from the Laocoön to the academies -- 22. Encountering the peoples of the 'Newe founde worldes', 1492-1610 -- 23. The Reformation : new perspectives for the Western mind? -- 24. The world of Catholic renewal --
25
. Montaigne and Hamlet : peace or turmoil in the solitary soul? -- 26. Absolutist France versus the Dutch Republic : a study of political contrasts -- 27. Britain's revolutionary century -- 28. Envisaging an ideal society in the seventeenth century -- 29. Natural philosophy into science : the astronomers -- 30. Was there an English scientific revolution? -- 31. Did the seventeenth century see the making of the modern mind? -- 32. Was there really 'a reopening of the western mind'?.
Summary:
"A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment ( 500 AD to 1700 AD) tracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved over the course of 1,200 years, setting the stage for the modern era. "--Jacket.
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