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• catalog abstract "The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, touching on such topics as political thought and historiography, metaphysical and practical conceptions of order, the relevance of Renaissance humanism to Protestant thought, the secularization of European culture, the contributions of particular professional groups to European civilization, and the teaching of history. The essays in "A Usable Past" are unified by a set of common concerns. William Bouwsma has always resisted the pretensions to science that have shaped much recent historical scholarship and made the work of historians increasingly specialized and inaccessible to lay readers. Following Friedrich Nietzsche, he argues that since history is a kind of public utility, historical research should contribute to the self-understanding of society.".
• catalog contributor b2658558.
• catalog coverage "Europe Civilization.".
• catalog created "c1990.".
• catalog date "1990".
• catalog date "c1990.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1990.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Polarities of Western culture: The two faces of humanism : stoicism and Augustinianism in Renaissance thought -- Changing assumptions in later Renaissance culture -- The Venetian interdict and the problem of order -- The secularization of society in the seventeenth century -- Lawyers and early modern culture -- The durable renaissance: Anxiety and the formation of early modern culture -- The politics of Commynes -- Postel and the significance of Renaissance cabalism -- Renaissance and Reformation : an essay on their affinities and connections -- Venice, Spain, and the Papacy : Paulo Sarpi and the Renaissance tradition -- Venice and the political education of Europe -- History and historians: Three types of historiography in post-Renaissance Italy -- Gallicanism and the nature of Christendom -- The waning of the Middle Ages revisited -- From history of ideas to history of meaning -- The Renaissance and the drama of Western history -- IV. Essays in applied history: Models of the educated man -- Socrates and the confusion of the humanities -- Christian adulthood -- The history teacher as mediator.".
• catalog description "The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, touching on such topics as political thought and historiography, metaphysical and practical conceptions of order, the relevance of Renaissance humanism to Protestant thought, the secularization of European culture, the contributions of particular professional groups to European civilization, and the teaching of history. The essays in "A Usable Past" are unified by a set of common concerns. William Bouwsma has always resisted the pretensions to science that have shaped much recent historical scholarship and made the work of historians increasingly specialized and inaccessible to lay readers. Following Friedrich Nietzsche, he argues that since history is a kind of public utility, historical research should contribute to the self-understanding of society.".
• catalog extent "ix, 444 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0520064380 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0520069900 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1990".
• catalog issued "c1990.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Europe Civilization.".
• catalog subject "901 20".
• catalog subject "Culture History".
• catalog subject "D7 .B72 1990".
• catalog subject "Europe".
• catalog subject "History Philosophy.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Polarities of Western culture: The two faces of humanism : stoicism and Augustinianism in Renaissance thought -- Changing assumptions in later Renaissance culture -- The Venetian interdict and the problem of order -- The secularization of society in the seventeenth century -- Lawyers and early modern culture -- The durable renaissance: Anxiety and the formation of early modern culture -- The politics of Commynes -- Postel and the significance of Renaissance cabalism -- Renaissance and Reformation : an essay on their affinities and connections -- Venice, Spain, and the Papacy : Paulo Sarpi and the Renaissance tradition -- Venice and the political education of Europe -- History and historians: Three types of historiography in post-Renaissance Italy -- Gallicanism and the nature of Christendom -- The waning of the Middle Ages revisited -- From history of ideas to history of meaning -- The Renaissance and the drama of Western history -- IV. Essays in applied history: Models of the educated man -- Socrates and the confusion of the humanities -- Christian adulthood -- The history teacher as mediator.".
• catalog title "A usable past : essays in European cultural history / William J. Bouwsma.".
• catalog type "text".