The waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640
Historian William J. Bouwsma here examines the conventional view of the European Renaissance as the root and foundation of modern culture, arguing instead that while it had a beginning and a climax, the Renaissance also had an ending.
Print Book, English, 2002, ©2000
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2002, ©2000
History
xi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780300097177, 9780300085372, 0300097174, 0300085370
59498845
The cultural community of Europe
The liberation of the self
The liberation of knowing
The liberation of time
The liberation of space
The liberation of politics
The liberation of religion
The worst of times
Renaissance theater and the crisis of the self
Toward a culture of order
The reordered self
The quest for certainty: from skepticism to science
The decline of historical consciousness
Order in society and government
Order in religion
Order in arts