Sixteenth Century Europe: Expansion and Conflict (History of Europe (St. Martins)) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Sixteenth Century Europe: Expansion and Conflict (History of Europe (St. Martins)) Book

Few periods of a hundred years have held the imagination as much as the period 1500-1600. At least four great themes - Renaissance, Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Expansion - vie for dominance. The decisive cultural theme of the fifteenth century - classical revival in Italy - had spread and diversified, the social structures of the Ancien Regime were yet to solidify. This study examines the symptons of expansion - population growth, adventure overseas, new voyages of the imagination - and the areas of conflict - the world and the spirit, the public and private spheres, elite and popular cultures - and argues that spiritual quest and intellectual curiosity had the same cultural roots. Read More

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  • 0312067399
  • 9780312067397
  • Richard MacKenney
  • 1 August 1993
  • Palgrave MacMillan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 425
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