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Judgements on History and Historians by Burckhardt, Jacob
Category: History | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Renowned for his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Reflections on History, Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) has well been described as "the most civilized historian of the nineteenth century." Judgments on History and Historians consists of records collected by Emil D rr from Burckhardt's lecture ...Show more
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the I ...Show more
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Category: Art
This great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. Within the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt finds the first stirrings of the modern world-and in the Renaissance Italian, th ...Show more
The Greeks and Greek Civilization by Jacob Burckhardt; Oswyn Murray (Editor)
Category: History
For the first time in English, one of the greatest masterpieces of historical writing: 'Every civilized library must have a copy.' CHRISTOPHER STACE, Telegraph 'A wonderfully fat and vivid reminder of the splendour and miseries of Hellenism...enlightened and enlightening, a joy to read, delicious with a ...Show more
The State as a Work of Art by Jacob Burckhardt
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Pioneering art historian Jacob Burckhardt saw the Italian Renaissance as no less than the beginning of the modern world. In this hugely influential work, he argues that the Renaissance's creativity, competitiveness, dynasties, great city-states and even its vicious rulers sowed the seeds of a new era. " ...Show more
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