Sixteenth Century Europe. Exp[ansion and Conflict.  -  MACKENNEY, RICHARD

expansion and conflict

KORTE INHOUD

Few periods of a hundred years have held the imagination as much as the period 1500-1600. At least four great themes - Renaissance, Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Expansion - vie for dominance. The decisive cultural theme of the fifteenth century - classical revival in Italy - had spread and diversified, the social structures of the Ancien Regime were yet to solidify. This study examines the symptons of expansion - population growth, adventure overseas, new voyages of the imagination - and the areas o...
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1993 Uitgever: Macmillan 393 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0333369246 ISBN-13: 9780333369241