The Awakening by Charles Freeman - 9781789545623

Name: The Awakening by Charles Freeman - 9781789545623
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The AwakeningA History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700\nAuthor(s): Charles Freeman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Apollo\nISBN-13: 9781789545623, 978-1789545623\nSynopsis\nA monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. \nThe Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts, fragile at first, was strengthened under the Christian empire founded by Charlemagne in the eighth century; later, during the High Middle Ages, universities were founded and the study of philosophy was revived. Renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought provided the intellectual impetus for the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, whose ideas aesthetic, political and scientific were disseminated across Europe by ts