{"product_id":"revival-the-sixteenth-century-1936-9781138567313","title":"Revival The Sixteenth Century 1936","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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 was profoundly averse to formulating ''philosophies of history'', and though he felt impelled to put in order the impression whihc much reading and pondering have left with him, the author did not pretend to link these impressions into any theory of evolution. There are as many ''ifs'' in history as ''therefores''. The phenomena are always interesting, often contradictory, like the strands of thought and behaviour in an individual human being. The author sets down his conclusions for what they are worth - though perhaps, as the Preacher remarks, ''of mak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter I On looking Forward and Looking Backward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter II Lost Illusions: The Papacy and The Holy Roman Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter III The End of the Fifteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter IV Man and the Universe in the Sixteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter V Tendencies and Individuals. The Popes and The King of France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VI Tendencies and Individuals. Charles V and Philip II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VII Tendencies and Individuals. Henry VIII of England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter VIII Tendencies and Individuals. Gustavus Vasa and Scandinavian Protestantism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter IX The Opportunists Great and Small. Elizabeth and Catherine De Medici and Others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter X The Turkish Danger, 1520-71\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XI The Wars of the Sixteenth Century: (a) The Italian Wars, (b) The 'Wars of Religion'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter XII The Occult in the Sixteenth Century \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084562821463,"sku":"9781138567313","price":34.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138567313.jpg?v=1762206811","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/revival-the-sixteenth-century-1936-9781138567313","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}