The Civilisation of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale

The Civilisation of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale

The masterpiece of Britains leading Renaissance scholar, winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award, beautifully reissued in Harper Perennial.

'A superb evocation of the Europe of the 'long 16th century,' wonderfully fresh and rich in its copious illustrative detail, full of innumerable delightsThe book is the summation of John Hale's career as a historian, and as the crowning achievement of a master-designer whose richly fabricated works have given so much pleasure.' John Elliot, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford

‘This magnificent book is the product of a lifetime’s scholarship by someone with a quite irrepressible curiosity and prodigious breadth of reading… together witht he enviable gift of writing clearly and beautifully.’ TLS

‘John Hale has produced a vast and enthralling mosaic. Only someone who had devoted a lifetime to studying history, literature and the afrt of the 15th and 16th centuries could draw so effortlessly on what seems a limitless range of texts and illustrations. One cannot skim a single chapter without encountering unfamiliar details, elegant juxtapositions of visual and verbal argument, and anecdotes without end, each of which makes a novel and instructive point. His curiosity never fails, his learning constantly surprises, and the wit and energy of his style never flags…. Extraordinary.’ Anthony Grafton, LRB

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	9780006861751
ISBN 10	000686175X
Title	The Civilisation of Europe in the Renaissance
Author	John Hale
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1994-11-14
Number of pages	672
Prizes	Winner of Time-Life Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction 1994
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.