From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe. Home Study Books.

Language: English

Published by London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1953

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240 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband und Schutzumschlag berieben und bestoßen, Seiten altersbedingt vergilbt, vereinzelt Anstreichungen, insgesamt altersgemäßer Zustand / Binding and dust jacket rubbed and bumped, pages yellowed due to age, occasional annotations, overall condition commensurate with age. - The thousand years lying between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries saw the Roman Empire of the West give way to a decentralized society, vigorous, brutal and inventive, for which the only unifying factor was a universal acceptance of Latin Christianity. In turn, Christendom began to lose its coherence during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and by the fifteenth century Europe had emerged as a rival term, a Europe in which the landed magnates had capitulated to the omnipotent and ubiquitous prince, commerce as well as land now being a source of wealth. These changes, and others which went with them, are the subject of this book, which is divided into three sections covering roughly the fourth to the ninth centuries, the tenth to the twelfth, and the thirteenth to the fifteenth. No detailed narrative of events is attempted, but the argument is illustrated wherever possible by concrete examples designed to reveal the interaction of ideas and abstractions with the hand to mouth devices of everyday life, the elaboration of systematic policies out of the ambitious and anxious expedients of peasants, barons, bishops, merchants and kings. As its title suggests, this is not a picture of a static Middle Ages, with fixed characteristics, but of real men and women facing genuine situations which forever change and develop: in short, an attempt to see life in the round There is a reading list, which includes a selection of original authorities in translation. /// This Home Study Series has been planned to provide new interpretations of modern knowledge, literary, historical and scientific, for the layman. The aim has been to recruit outstanding figures in the world of the humanities and of science who are able to render their subjects in a language of general intelligibility without falling into any facile popularisation. Fortunately the General Editor has been able to interest a number of authorities who have given of their best to write briefly and simply and yet without distortion of truth upon the subjects of which they are masters. For instance, Professor E. L. Woodwards History of Englandhas already been recognised as a classic, while Professor John Reads A Direct Entry to Organic Chemistry was in 1949 awarded the Cortina Prize as the best popular scientific book published in the last five years. It is the intention of the publishers to continue this series until all aspects of contemporary knowledge in the arts and sciences have been covered. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Leinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket.…

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Title
From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe. Home Study Books.
Author
Hay, Denis:
Publisher
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Publication year
1953
Condition
Gut
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Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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