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Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936)
About This Book
Often some one precious detail of war lurks in the middle of a book of the most unlikely description. After turning over tens of thousands of leaves in Latin, French, Italian, German, English, Spanish and Dutch print, one is left with an accumulation of observed phenomena - religious, cultural, literary, psychological - which the mind is forced to coordinate into some sort of general conclusions. As the author has stated in some of the pages which follow this preface, the author is profoundly averse to formulating 'philosophies of history', and though the author feels impelled to put in order the impression which much reading and pondering have left with me, the author does not pretend to link these impressions into any theory of evolution. There are as many 'ifs' in history as 'therefores'.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- I ON LOOKING FORWARD AND LOOKING BACKWARD
- II LOST ILLUSIONS : THE PAPACY AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
- III THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
- IV MAN AND THE UNIVERSE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- V TENDENCIES AND INDIVIDUALS. THE POPES AND THE KINGS OF FRANCE
- VI TENDENCIES AND INDIVIDUALS. CHARLES V AND PHILIP II
- VII TENDENCIES AND INDIVIDUALS. HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND
- VIII TENDENCIES AND INDIVIDUALS. GUSTAVUS VASA AND SCANDINAVIAN PROTESTANTISM
- IX THE OPPORTUNISTS GREAT AND SMALL. ELIZABETH AND CATHERINE DE MEDICI AND OTHERS
- X THE TURKISH DANGER, 1520â71
- XI THE WARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY : (a) THE ITALIAN WARS, (b) THE âWARS OF RELIGIONâ
- XII THE OCCULT IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- INDEX