The Story of Civilization: The Reformation: A History of European Civilization from Wyclif to Calvin: 1300 - 1564 [Part VI] [VINTAGE 1957]

Durant, Will

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1957

Beschreibung

Fine condition maroon cloth boards with gold front cover decoration and gold spine lettering. Includes List of Other Books by Will Durant; Author Dedication; Preliminary Sections include the following: To the Reader; Notes on the Use of This Book; Lists of Illustrations; Epilogue: Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment; Bibliographical Guide; Notes; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and color map illustrated front and rear endpapers consisting of: Europe in 1519, The Swiss Confederation; The Ottoman Empire; and Medieval England and Wales circa 1399. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the binding/spine is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "The prospective reader deserves a friendly notice that The Reformation is not quite an honest title for this book. An accurate title would be: "A History of European Civilization Outside of Italy from 1300 to 1564, or Thereabouts, Including the History of Religion in Italy and an Incidental View of Islamic and Judaic Civilization in Europe, Africa, and Western Asia." Why so meandering a thematic frontier? Because Volume IV (The Age of Faith) in this "Story of Civilization" brought European history only to 1300, and Volume V (The Renaissance) confined itself to Italy, 1304-1576, deferring the Italian echoes of the Reformation. So this Volume VI must begin at 1300; and the reader will be amused to find that Luther arrives on the scene only after a third of the tale has been told. But let us privately agree that the Reformation really began with John Wyclif and Louis of Bavaria in the fourteenth century, progressed with John Huss in the fifteenth, and culminated explosively in the sixteenth with the reckless monk of Wittenberg. Those whose present interest is only in the religious revolution may omit Chapters III-VI and IX-X without irreparable loss. The Reformation, then is the central, but not the only, subject of this book. " - excerpt from To the Reader by Will Durant, Los Angeles, May 12, 1957. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005725

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Story of Civilization: The Reformation: ...

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1957

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine