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  • Thomas More

    par Joanne Paul ...
    Collections series Classic Thinkers
    Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist. His work spans contemporary disciplines from history to politics to literature, and his ... En savoir plus

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  • History

    A Very Short Introduction

    par John H. Arnold ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

    par John Robertson ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... En savoir plus

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  • Locke

    A Very Short Introduction

    par John Dunn ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been curiously misunderstood. In this book John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at his theory of knowledge ... En savoir plus

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  • The Reformation

    A History

    Collections Livre 19 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “No revolution however drastic has ever involved a total repudiation of what came before it.”The religious reformations of the sixteenth century were the crucible of modern Western civilization, profoundly reshaping the identity of Europe’s emerging nation-states. In The Reformation, one of the preeminent historians of the period, Patrick Collinson, offers a concise yet thorough overview of the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $11.99 CAD

  • Towards the Light

    The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West

    The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept away monarchies for more representative forms of government and making possible the abolition of slavery, the enfranchisement of women, and the idea ... En savoir plus

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  • Reformation Myths

    Five Centuries Of Misconceptions And (Some) Misfortunes

    par Rodney Stark ...
    What has the Reformation ever done for us?A lot less than you might think, as Rodney Stark shows in this enlightening and entertaining antidote to recent books about the rise of Protestantism and its legacy.‘Rodney Stark takes no prisoners as he charges through five hundred years of history, upsetting apple carts left and right. Almost everything you thought you knew about the Reformation turns ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Modifié par Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... En savoir plus

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  • Between Utopia and Dystopia

    Erasmus, Thomas More, and the Humanist Republic of Letters

    par Hanan Yoran ...
    The figure of the intellectual looms large in modern history, and yet his or her social place has always been full of ambiguity and ironies. Between Utopia and Dystopia is a study of the movement that created the identity of the universal intellectual: Erasmian humanism.Focusing on the writings of Erasmus and Thomas More, Hanan Yoran argues that, in contrast to other groups of humanists, Erasmus ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Divine Art, Infernal Machine

    The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending

    Collections series Material Texts
    There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Inventing The Middle Ages

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  • Born Bad

    Original Sin and the Making of the Western World

    par James Boyce ...
    Explore the history of original sin—and how it shapes our view of human nature—in “one of the best books on the history of the evolution of Christianity and its ideology” (Washington Book Review).Original sin is the Western world’s creation story.According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s grace can they achieve salvation. In this ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD