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2011., Viking Call No: 936 P945b Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past filled with great leaders and writers, emigrations and battles. Indeed, much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the obsessive importance it held for so many generations of Greeks and Romans, who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes and villains. Figures such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today, but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded them. The Birth of Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history, and also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values and interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some measures very remote but by others startlingly close.
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1995, c1985., Arms and Armour Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Call No: 940.1 T943b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2013., Adult, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: 940 C132h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The hinges of history Volume: v. 6Summary Note: From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.
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c1995., Nan A. Talese, Doubleday Call No: 941.501 C132h Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2006., Crown Forum Call No: 940.5 B515m Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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c2006., N.A. Talese Call No: 909.07 C132m Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The hinges of history Volume: v. 5.Summary Note: 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--monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable Florence of Dante and Giotto--Cahill captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world.--From publisher description.
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2011., Adult, New York Review Books Call No: 440.9409033 F976w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New York review books classics.Summary Note: During the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocrats, and artists, French was the universal language of politics and intellectual life. In When the World Spoke French, Marc Fumaroli presents a gallery of portraits of Europeans and Americans who conversed and corresponded in French, along with excerpts from their letters or other writings. These men and women, despite their differences, were all irresistibly attracted to the ideal of human happiness inspired by the Enlightenment, whose capital was Paris and whose king was Voltaire. Whether they were in Paris or far away, speaking French connected them in spirit with all those who desired to emulate Parisian tastes, style of life, and social pleasures. Their stories are testaments to the appeal of that famous “sweetness of life” nourished by France and its language.
