The reopening of the Western mind
the resurgence of intellectual life from the end of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment
Book - 2023
"A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment--500 to 1700 AD--tracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved over the course of 1,200 years, setting the stage for the modern era." -- inside front jacket flap.
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Alfred A. Knopf,
2023.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The reopening of the Western mind : |b the resurgence of intellectual life from the end of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment / |c Charles Freeman. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c 2023. | |
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| 300 | |a 803 pages : |b illustrations (chiefly color) ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue. The collapse of learning -- The saving of the texts, 500- -- Charlemagne restores the discipline of learning -- Conformity and diversity in the Christian communities of the late first millennium -- The challenges of Christian leadership. Authority and dissent in the medieval church, 1000- -- Abelard and the battle for reason -- The cry of libertas, the rebirth of the city-state -- 'Completely new, without any real precedent and with an exceptional historical destiny' : success and failure within the medieval university -- The complexities of medieval philosophy : a reopening or a dead-end? -- The glimmerings of a scientific revival, 1200-1350? -- New directions in literature and political thought : Dante, Marsilius and Boccaccio and their worlds -- 'I snarl at the stupid Aristotelians' : humanism and the challenge to the scholastics -- 'It is but in our own day that men dare boast that they see the dawn of better things' : 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? -- Filling the vacuum : the loss of papal authority and the rise of the laity, 1350- -- 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 prince -- Broadening horizons : from the Laocoon 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- -- Reformation : a restoration of Christian authority? -- The world of Catholic renewal -- Absolutist France versus the Dutch Republic : a study of contrasts in seventeenth century politics -- The seventeenth century : the most revolutionary century in the history of modern Britain? -- Thinking politically. Envisaging an ideal society in the seventeenth century -- From natural philosophy into science. The astronomers -- Was there an English scientific revolution? -- 'Once in a lifetime we must demolish everything' : (Descartes) did the seventeenth century see the making of the modern mind? -- Bringing it all together : was there really 'a reopening of the western mind?. | |
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