The World at First Light (Hardcover)

Bernd Roeck

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2025

069118383X / 9780691183831

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Hardcover. A magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern worldThe cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? In The World at First Light, historian Bernd Roeck explores the cultural and historical preconditions that enabled the European Renaissance. Roeck shows that the rediscovery of ancient knowledge, including the science of the medieval Arab world, played a critical role in shaping the beginnings of Western modernity. He explains that the Renaissance emerged in a part of Europe where competing states and cities formed relatively open societies. Most of the eras creative minds from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Copernicus and Galileo came from the middle classes. The art of arguing flowered, the basso continuo to intellectual and cultural breakthroughs.Roeck argues that two revolutions shaped the Renaissance: a media revolution, triggered by Gutenbergs invention of movable type which itself was a driving force behind the scientific revolution and the advent of modern science. He also reports on the dark side of the era hatred of Jews, witch panic, religious wars, and the atrocities of colonialism. In a series of meditative counterfactuals, Roeck considers other cultural rebirths throughout the first millennium, from the Islamic empire to the Carolingians, examining why the epic developments of the Renaissance took place in the West and not elsewhere. The complicated legacy of the Renaissance, he shows, encompasses the art of critical thinking as learned from the ancients, the emergence of the modern state, and the genesis of democracy. A magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern world Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
The World at First Light (Hardcover)
Autore
Bernd Roeck
Editore
Princeton University Press, New Jersey
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
069118383X
ISBN 13
9780691183831

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