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The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold

The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold

Fraser, Russell a.

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 1787

Medieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 069164618X
ISBN13: 9780691646183
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this original and provocative book Russell Fraser has set himself no less a task than the description and interpretation of one of the signal facts of Western history--the breaking away of the present from the medieval past. He locates this break in England in the sixteenth century, and on the continent two hundred years earlier. Unafraid to synthesize, he weaves a rich fabric of quotations, allusions, and examples from art, music, philosophy, theology, and physical science to explain the cultural transition to the modern world.

Although the author ranges from Plato to the present, his focus is concentrated on the major figures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, especially Shakespeare, the last and greatest of medieval artists. His intention is always to draw together and compare medieval. Renaissance, and contemporary attitudes so that the reader can see the past becoming the present, how and when this transformation occurred, and for what reasons.

Originally published in 1973.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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