The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold (eBook)

Russell A. Fraser (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6904-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Schlagworte: Aeneid • Aesop • agnosticism • Allegory • Anathema • Anthropomorphism • Antithesis • aphorism • Art for art's sake • Arthur Golding • Ben Jonson • bigotry • Christian Morgenstern • Counter-Reformation • culture and anarchy • Edward Alleyn • Epic Poetry • Epigram • erudition • Euhemerism • Ezra Pound • Falsity • G. (novel) • Gorboduc • hyperbole • irving babbitt • Jean de Meun • John Donne • John Foxe • John of Gaunt • Joseph Conrad • Juvenal • Kenneth Burke • king claudius • Lactantius • Lewis Theobald • Literature • Love's Labour's Lost • Lucretius • Maleficent • Martianus Capella • Meister Eckhart • Metaphysical poets • Misery (novel) • New Criticism • oxymoron • pelagianism • perkin warbeck • petrarch • Philosophy • Plautus • Plotinus • Poetaster • Poetry • Polonius • prince hal • Prudentius • Pseudo-Martyr • Pun • Quintilian • Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye • Richard Barnfield • Richard Savage (poet) • Robert Greene (dramatist) • Rodomontade • Romanticism • Samson Agonistes • Satanism • SCHOLASTICISM • Scientism • Sententiae • Seven Deadly Sins • Silver Age • Sonnet 83 • Sophocles • Stephen Dedalus • Stephen Hawes • The Birth of Tragedy • The Day of Doom • The Devil Is an Ass • The Eustace Diamonds • The Faerie Queene • The Golden Bowl • The Golden Pot • The Gravediggers • The Heresy of Paraphrase • The Iron Heel • The Knight's Tale • The Philosopher • The Poetaster • The Realist • The Theatre and its Double • Thomas Carlyle • Thomas Nashe • Titus Andronicus • Tragedy • tragicomedy • Verisimilitude (fiction) • William Ames • William Shakespeare
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6904-8 / 1400869048
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6904-6 / 9781400869046