Must We Divide History Into Periods?

by Jacques Le Goff

Book Overview

We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231173016
• ISBN13: 9780231173018
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 7.0"