A usable past : essays in European cultural history

Bouwsma, William J. (William James) 1923-2004 (Author).

Summary: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, touching on such topics as political thought and historiography, metaphysical and practical conceptions of order, the relevance of Renaissance humanism to Protestant thought, the secularization of European culture, the contributions of particular professional groups to European civilization, and the.

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ISBN: 9780520069909
ISBN: 0520069900
ISBN: 9780520064386
ISBN: 0520064380
ISBN: 9780585147680
ISBN: 058514768X
ISBN: 0520910141
ISBN: 9780520910140
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 444 pages)
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Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1990.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Polarities of Western Culture -- The Two Faces of Humanism: Stoicism and Augustinianism in Renaissance Thought -- Changing Assumptions in Later Renaissance Culture -- The Venetian Interdict and the Problem of Order -- The Secularization of Society in the Seventeenth Century -- Lawyers and Early Modern Culture -- The Durable Renaissance -- Anxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture -- The Politics of Commynes -- Postel and the Significance of Renaissance Cabalism -- Renaissance and Reformation: An Essay on Their Affinities and Connections -- Venice, Spain, and the Papacy: Paolo Sarpi and the Renaissance Tradition -- Venice and the Political Education of Europe -- History and Historians -- Three Types of Historiography in Post-Renaissance Italy -- Gallicanism and the Nature of Christendom -- The Waning of the Middle Ages Revisited -- From History of Ideas to History of Meaning -- The Renaissance and the Drama of Western History -- Essays in Applied History -- Models of the Educated Man -- Socrates and the Confusion of the Humanities -- Christian Adulthood -- Coda -- The History Teacher as Mediator.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.