Three golden ages discovering the creative secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's founding
Historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr., delves into the economic, social, and artistic characteristics of three of the most intensely creative periods in Western history to explore the qualities that enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, and...
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Lanham, Maryland ; New York ; Oxford
Madison books
1998
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The Persistent Question The Bow and the Lyre Legs and Tails
- Renaissance Florence Waking the Dead Lorenzo the Magnificent Saints, Sinners, and Seers Gold Coins and a Golden Age Bonfire of the Vanities Cycle of Fire Age of Genius Why the Renaissance Left Home
- Elizabethan England Saints and Sinners
- English Style Gloriana "All Knowledge for My Province" The Grand Design The Great Magician Benign Contagion Explorers All
- America "Westward the Course" "Where None Before Hath Stood" Where They Were in 1760 "Before We Were the Land's" The Virginia Path Royal Road to Learning