Sixteenth century Europe : expansion and conflict /
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| Author / Creator: | Mackenney, Richard |
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| Imprint: | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993. |
| Description: | xxxi, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of Europe History of Europe (St. Martin's Press) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1183543 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xxxi, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-378) and index. |
| ISBN: | 031206036X 0312067399 |