Civilization of Europe by John Hale
This is a rich portrait of Europe and its civilization in the 16th century - the moment when "Europe" first became an entity in the minds of its own inhabitants. It does not simply survey "high" culture, but paints a gigantic portrait of the age, enlivened by a mass of detail about the lives of often obscure figures who Hale brings to life to give point to his multiplicity of arguments. What precisely is meant by "civilization"? How usefully descriptive of the period as a whole is "Renaissance"? What, indeed, did "Italy" (for example) mean to contemporaries? These are some of the questions which Hale addresses in this challenging book.Sir John Hale was, until his death, a Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Italian History at University College, London. He is the author of many books, including England and the Italian Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Painting, Renaissance Europe 1480-1520, Florence and the Medici: the Pattern of Control and A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002153393 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002153394 |
| Title | Civilization of Europe |
| Author | John Hale |
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| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1993-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 864 |
| Prizes | Winner of Time-Life Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction 1994, Winner of Royal Society of Literature Award 1993 |
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