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This book describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaissance and Reformation down to the present in the light of its own time and our pressing concerns.
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.
"Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500." "In this account, Bar…
Showcases the triumphs and defeats of five hundred years of Western cultural history, highlighting the contributions of women and arguing that decadence is required in order to spark creativity in the next era.
A key impulse of cultural transmission is engaging with the past for the benefit of the present. In 17 essays on subjects that range from Paschasius Radbertus to Orhan Pamuk, the Regularis Concordia to Kurt Weill, this book examines specific historical case studies that reveal t…
El sueño del humanismo: de Petrarca a Erasmo
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