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The reopening of the Western mind : the resurgence of intellectual life from the end of antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment / Charles Freeman.

by Freeman, Charles, 1947- author.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023

Civilization, Medieval.

Civilization, Modern.

Europe -- Intellectual life.

Europe -- Civilization.

9780525659365 (hardcover) :

0525659366 (hardcover)

803 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

First American edition.

Prologue. The collapse of learning -- The saving of the texts, 500-750 -- Charlemagne restores the discipline of learning -- Conformity and diversity in the Christian communities of the late first millennium -- Authority and dissent in the medieval church, 1000-1250 -- Abelard and the battle for reason -- The cry of libertas, the rebirth of the city-state -- Success and failure within the medieval university -- Medieval philosophy : a reopening or a dead-end? -- The glimmerings of a scientific revival, 1200-1350 -- Dante, Marsilius and Boccaccio and their worlds -- Humanism and the challenge to the scholastics -- The exuberance of Florentine humanism -- The flowering of the Florentine Renaissance -- Plato re-enters the western mind -- The printing press : what was published and why? -- The loss of papal authority and the rise of the laity, 1300-1550 -- Defining global space : the mapping of the new world -- How Europe learned to see again : Leonardo and Vasalius -- Exploring the natural world in the sixteenth century -- Imagining princely politics, from utopia to the Machiavellian ruler -- Broadening horizons : from the Laocoön to the academies -- Encountering the peoples of the 'Newe founde worldes', 1492- -- The Reformation : new perspectives for the Western mind -- The world of Catholic renewal -- Montaigne and Hamlet: peace or turmoil in the solitary soul? -- Absolutist France versus the Dutch Republic : a study of political contrasts -- Berlin's revolutionary century -- Envisaging an Ideal society in the Seventeenth century -- From natural philosophy into science. The astronomers -- Was there an English scientific revolution? -- Did the Seventeenth century see the making of the Western mind? -- Was there really 'a reopening of the western mind?.

"A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment--500 to 1700 AD--tracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved over the course of 1,200 years, setting the stage for the modern era." -- inside front jacket flap.

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