The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold

by Russell A. Fraser

In this original and provocative book Russell Fraser has set himself no less a task than the description and interpretation of one of the signal "facts" of Western history--the breaking away of the present from the medieval past. He locates this break in England in the sixteenth century, and on the continent two hundred years earlier. Unafraid to synthesize, he weaves a rich fabric of quotations, allusions, and examples from art, music, philosophy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691062161
• ISBN13: 9780691062167
• Release Date: March 1973
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages