The reopening of the Western mind the resurgence of intellectual life from the end of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment / Charles Freeman.
| Author/creator | Freeman, Charles, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First American edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. |
| Description | 803 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Resurgence of intellectual life from the end of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment |
| Contents | The collapse of learning -- The saving of the texts, 500-750 -- Charlemagne restores the discipline of learning -- Conformity and diversity in the Christian communities of the late first millennium -- Authority and dissent in the medieval church, 1000-1250 -- Abelard and the battle for reason -- The cry of libertas : the rebirth of the city-state -- Success and failure within the medieval university -- A medieval philosophy : a reopening or a dead end? -- The glimmerings of a scientific revival, 1200-1350 -- Dante, Marsilius and Boccaccio and their worlds -- Humanism and the challenge to the scholastics -- The exuberance of Florentine humanism -- The flowering of the Florentine Renaissance -- Plato re-enters the Western mind -- The printing press : what was published and why? -- The loss of papal authority and the rise of the laity, 1350-1550 -- Defining global space : the mapping of the New World -- How Europe learned to see again : Leonardo and Vasalius -- Exploring the natural world in the sixteenth century -- Imagining princely politics, from utopia to the Machiavellian ruler -- Broadening horizons : from the Laocoön to the academies. Recovering the ancient world -- Montaigne and Hamlet : peace or turmoil in the solitary soul? -- Defining global space : the mapping of the new world -- Encountering the peoples of the 'Newe founde worldes', 1492-1610 -- The Reformation : new perspectives for the Western mind? -- The world of Catholic renewal -- Montaigne and Hamlet : peace or turmoil in the solitary soul? -- Absolutist France versus the Dutch Republic : a study of political contrasts -- Britain's revolutionary century -- Envisaging an ideal society in the seventeenth century -- From natural philosophy into science : the astronomers -- Was there an English scientific revolution? -- Did the seventeenth century see the making of the modern mind? -- Was there really 'a reopening of the western mind'?. |
| Abstract | "A history of European intellectual life from 500 AD to 1700 AD"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 746-755) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021036178 |
| ISBN | 9780525659365 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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