Mysteries of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern world /
After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. On visits to the great cities of Europe--m...
| Main Author: | Cahill, Thomas. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Anchor Books,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
343 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st Anchor books ed. |
| Series: |
Cahill, Thomas. Hinges of history ;
v. 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- A Chaucerian invitation
- Alexandria: city of reason : the great confluence
- Rome: crossroads of the world : how the Romans become the Italians
- Bingen & Chartres, gardens enclosed : the cult of the virgin and its consequences
- Aquitaine and Assisi, courts of love : the pursuit of love and its consequences
- Entrances to other worlds : the Mediterranean, the Orient, and the Atlantic
- Paris, university of heavenly things : the exaltation of reason and its consequences
- Oxford, university of earthly things : the alchemist's quest and its consequences
- Padua, chapel of flesh : the artist's experiment and its consequences
- Florence, dome of light : the poet's dream and its consequences
- Ravenna, city of death : the politician's emptiness and its consequences
- Love in the ruins : a Dantesque reflection.