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The Awakening : A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700
Freeman, Charles
A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall
of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen
centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of
Europe’s classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The
process of preservation of surviving texts, fragile at first, was
strengthened under the Christian empire founded by Charlemagne in the
eighth century; later, during the High Middle Ages, universities were
founded and the study of philosophy was revived.
Renewed
interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought provided the intellectual
impetus for the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
whose ideas - aesthetic, political and scientific - were disseminated
across Europe by the invention of the printing press. Equally momentous
was Europe’s encounter with the New World, and the resulting maritime
supremacy which conferred global reach on Europe’s merchants and
colonists. Vivid in detail and informed by the latest scholarship, The
Awakening is powered not by the fate of kings or the clash of arms but
by deeper currents of thought, inquiry and discovery, which first
recover and then surpass the achievements of classical antiquity, and
lead the West to the threshold of the Age of Reason.
Charles
Freeman takes the reader on an enthralling journey, and provides us with
a vital key to understanding the world we live in today. Praise for
The Awakening: ’The subject of this stimulating and erudite book is
nothing less than the development of the Western mind from the demise of
classical civilisation in the fifth century AD, through the Middle Ages
and Renaissance, to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth
century. The Awakening is a work of serious scholarship by an author who
has clearly been everywhere, seen everything and read voraciously.
But it is also a work written with great elan and, given its scope,
undertaken with considerable courage ... An arrestingly clear design,
combined with numerous judiciously chosen illustrations, completes an
extraordinary achievement’ Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of the Queen’s
Pictures, 1988-2005’The Awakening recounts the slow evolution of Western
thought that restored legitimacy to independent examination and
analysis, that eventually led to a celebration, albeit a cautious one,
of reason over blind faith. In the process, Freeman reminds us that
quality, engaging narrative history has not gone extinct, while
demonstrating that it is possible to produce a work that is so
well-written it is readable by a general audience while meeting the
rigorous standards of scholarship demanded by academia’ Stan Prager’The
Awakening is a very timely book and an excellently written and produced
one.
Freeman is a good host, a superb narrator and tells his
story with aplomb ... His elegant prose is a treat for the mind and the
accompanying illuminations a treat for the eye’ International Times
Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu: Kovakantinen
ean: 9781789545623
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): English non-fiction new 221217a
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