[Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2011
ISBN
1-4443-2450-0
Collana
Contesting the past Contesting the Renaissance
Disciplina
940.2/1072
Soggetti
Renaissance - Historiography
Renaissance
History & Archaeology
History - General
Lingua di pubblicazione
Inglese
Formato
Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico
Monografia
Note generali
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Sommario/riassunto
In the nineteenth century, the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt famously defined the Renaissance as a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.