Authors: Jacob Burckhardt
ISBN-13: 9780486475974, ISBN-10: 0486475972
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Peter Gay is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His many books include the three-volume The Enlightenment: An Interpretation; Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815–1914; and Freud: A Life for Our Time.
A distinguished scholar explores innovations in art and attitudes in this classic of cultural history. It chronicles the revival of humanism, church/empire conflicts, and the rise of modern government and individualism.
Another yarn set in Asaro's far-future Skolian Empire (Catch the Lightning, 1996, etc.). This time, Jagernaut Kelric Valdoria, the Emperor Kurj's half-brother, is attacked and disabled by Traders; he crash-lands on Coba, a planet run by women and protected by treaty from imperial incursions. For various reasons (not least because she falls in love with him), Coban Manager Jeha Dahl is reluctant to turn Kelric over to the Skolians. So 20 years pass while Kelric raises a family and, ultimately, precipitates a civil war before he can return to the imperium, leaving behind a daughter who may one day challenge the ruthless Kurj or his successor.
Independently intelligible but likely to appeal most to existing fans.
Biographical Note | ||
Introduction | ||
A Note on the Text | ||
Pt. 1 | The State as a Work of Art | |
Despots of the Fourteenth Century | 7 | |
Despots of the Fifteenth Century | 12 | |
The Smaller Despotisms | 20 | |
The Greater Dynasties | 26 | |
The Opponents of the Despots | 40 | |
The Republics: Venice and Florence | 45 | |
Foreign Policy | 64 | |
War as a Work of Art | 70 | |
The Papacy | 72 | |
Patriotism | 89 | |
Pt. 2 | The Development of the Individual | |
Personality | 93 | |
Glory | 100 | |
Ridicule and Wit | 107 | |
Pt. 3 | The Revival of Antiquity | |
The Ruins of Rome | 125 | |
The Classics | 132 | |
The Humanists | 139 | |
Universities and Schools | 143 | |
Propagators of Antiquity | 148 | |
Reproduction of Antiquity: Epistolography: Latin Orators | 157 | |
The Treatise, and History in Latin | 165 | |
Antiquity as the Common Source | 169 | |
Neo-Latin Poetry | 174 | |
Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century | 185 | |
Pt. 4 | The Discovery of the World and of Man | |
Journeys of the Italians | 197 | |
The Natural Sciences in Italy | 200 | |
Discovery of the Beauty of Landscape | 205 | |
Discovery of Man | 212 | |
Biography in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance | 228 | |
Description of the Outward Man | 238 | |
Description of Human Life | 242 | |
Pt. 5 | Society and Festivals | |
Equality of Classes | 249 | |
Costumes and Fashions | 256 | |
Language and Society | 261 | |
Social Etiquette | 266 | |
Education of the "Cortigiano" | 269 | |
Music | 271 | |
Equality of Men and Women | 274 | |
Domestic Life | 278 | |
Festivals | 280 | |
Pt. 6 | Morality and Religion | |
Morality of Judgement | 299 | |
Morality and Immorality | 300 | |
Religion in Daily Life | 319 | |
Strength of the Old Faith | 338 | |
Religion and the Spirit of the Renaissance | 345 | |
Influence of Ancient Superstition | 356 | |
General Spirit of Doubt | 380 | |
Afterword | 389 | |
Index | 395 |