Sixteenth Century Europe: Expansion and Conflict
Author(s): Richard Mackenney
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Few periods of a hundred years have held the imagination as much as the period 1500-1600. At least four great themes - Renaissance, Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Expansion - vie for dominance. The decisive cultural theme of the fifteenth century - classical revival in Italy - had spread and diversified, the social structures of the Ancien Regime were yet to solidify. This study examines the symptons of expansion - population growth, adventure overseas, new voyages of the imagination - and the areas of conflict - the world and the spirit, the public and private spheres, elite and popular cultures - and argues that spiritual quest and intellectual curiosity had the same cultural roots.
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- : Palgrave Macmillan Limited
- : Palgrave Pivot
- : 0.581
- : August 1993
- : 2.7 Centimeters X 13.9 Centimeters X 21.5 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Richard Mackenney
- : Paperback
- : English
- : good
- : xxxi, 425