1st Edition

A Cultural History of the Modern Age Volume 1, Renaissance and Reformation

By Egon Friedell Copyright 2008
388 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

385 Pages
by Routledge

Historian, philosopher, critic, playwright, journalist, and actor, Egon Friedell was a key figure in the extraordinary flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars. His masterpiece, A Cultural History of the Modern Age , demonstrates the intellectual universality that Friedell saw as guarantor of the continuity and regeneration of European civilization. Following a brilliant opening... Read more
Introduction; Book I: Renaissance and Reformation; I: The Beginning; II: The MediƦval Soul; III: The Incubation Period; IV: La Rinascieta; V: Reason Takes Charge; VI: The German Religion; VII: The Night of St. Bartholomew; Chronology

Biography

Egon Friedell