The Last Days of the Renaissance: And the March to Modernity - Hardcover

Rabb, Theodore K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465068014 ISBN 13: 9780465068012

Verlag: Basic Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Rabb Theodore K

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor

A leading Renaissance scholar examines what brought one of history's most fascinating eras to its end and gave rise to the modern era There is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pin down. Here, for the first time, renowned classicist Theodore Rabb defines the changes that marked the shift away from the Renaissance to Modernity, and explains why these changes took place. The European Renaissance is usually characterized by the belief that a distinct antique civilization represented the ideal for all human endeavours. But there were other unities that defined the era: a shift in the role of the aristocracy from a warrior class to a cultural elite, a growth in education, a more thoughtful probing into the sciences, and the use of the arts for non-religious purposes. By the dawn of the seventeenth century, four developments had swept over the world, altering these unities and ending the Renaissance: a break with the period's obsession with the past, which invited openness to innovation; a quest for central political control to cure increasing instability; a change in direction of people's passion and enthusiasm; and a new commitment to reason. With thoughtful, wide-lens scholarship with close, detailed looks throughout at the significant moments of change, Rabb offers us a radically new understanding of one of the most pivotal shifts in modern history.

Biografía del autor

Theodore K. Rabb is a professor of Renaissance and early modern history at Princeton University. His books include Jacobean Gentleman and The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0465068014
• ISBN 13: 9780465068012
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280