The Renaissance and Reformation : a history in documents, Merry Wiesner-Hanks

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The Renaissance and Reformation : a history in documents, Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Title remainder

a history in documents

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Merry Wiesner-Hanks

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• The Renaissance and Reformation : a history in documents

Publication

• New York, Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-156) and index

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volume

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• nc

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Introduction : Rebirths and Reformations -- The tumultuous Late Middle Ages. The Black Death ; Reactions and explanations ; Religion and the plague ; Economic and social effects ; War and revolts -- The past and the perfect. Florence: a city of gold ; The glories and perils of poetry ; Fame and the Renaissance man ; Perfect gentlemen, perfect ladies ; A perfect prince or a perfect tyrant? -- The glory of the world. The book of nature ; Nature versus art ; Painters, poets, and nature ; The artist as poet ; Fleeting life, fleeting love ; Music to charm the soul ; Messages from the stars -- Picture essay : The individual and the family -- Merchants and master craftsmen. The commercial revolution ; Families and fortunes ; Merchants and morality ; Jews in Renaissance cities ; Clothing and capitalism ; Craft guilds -- Religious reform and renewal. Popular devotion ; The power of the pope ; Calls for reform ; Reform becomes Reformation ; The Catholic response -- Radical hopes, popular protests, and mystical visions. Church and state ; Martyrs and enemies ; The Peasants' War ; A mystic Reformer -- A new moral order. Calvin's Geneva ; Marriage and the Reformation ; Preaching and teaching ; Were the Reformers successful? -- Global connections and challenges. The wealth of the Indies and the Portuguese voyages ; The voyages of Columbus ; The impact of European voyages in American and Africa ; Thinking about the Americas in Europe -- Timeline

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704121068

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27 cm

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ix, 163 pages

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9780195308891

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(hardcover : alk. paper)

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2011007316

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unmediated

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illustrations, maps

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.b96178061

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(OCoLC)704121068