Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936)
Often some one precious detail of war lurks in the middle of a book of the most unlikely description. After turning over tens of thousands of leaves in Latin, French, Italian, German, English, Spanish and Dutch print, one is left with an accumulation of observed phenomena - religious, cultural, literary, psychological - which the mind is forced to coordinate into some sort of general conclusions. As the author has stated in some of the pages which follow this preface, the author is profoundly averse to formulating 'philosophies of history', and though the author feels impelled to put in order the impression which much reading and pondering have left with me, the author does not pretend to link these impressions into any theory of evolution. There are as many 'ifs' in history as 'therefores'.

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Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936)
Often some one precious detail of war lurks in the middle of a book of the most unlikely description. After turning over tens of thousands of leaves in Latin, French, Italian, German, English, Spanish and Dutch print, one is left with an accumulation of observed phenomena - religious, cultural, literary, psychological - which the mind is forced to coordinate into some sort of general conclusions. As the author has stated in some of the pages which follow this preface, the author is profoundly averse to formulating 'philosophies of history', and though the author feels impelled to put in order the impression which much reading and pondering have left with me, the author does not pretend to link these impressions into any theory of evolution. There are as many 'ifs' in history as 'therefores'.

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Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936)

Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936)

by Charles William Chadwick Oman
Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936)
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Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936)

Revival: The Sixteenth Century (1936)

by Charles William Chadwick Oman

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Often some one precious detail of war lurks in the middle of a book of the most unlikely description. After turning over tens of thousands of leaves in Latin, French, Italian, German, English, Spanish and Dutch print, one is left with an accumulation of observed phenomena - religious, cultural, literary, psychological - which the mind is forced to coordinate into some sort of general conclusions. As the author has stated in some of the pages which follow this preface, the author is profoundly averse to formulating 'philosophies of history', and though the author feels impelled to put in order the impression which much reading and pondering have left with me, the author does not pretend to link these impressions into any theory of evolution. There are as many 'ifs' in history as 'therefores'.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138555792
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/18/2018
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Charles Oman was elected the Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1905, in succession to Montagu Burrows. He was also elected to the FBA that year, and served as President of the Royal Historical Society (1917- 1921), the Numismatic Society and the Royal Archaeological Institute. Oman's academic career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he was employed by the government's Press Bureau and the Foreign Office. He became an honorary fellow of New College in 1936, and received the honorary degrees of DCL (Oxford, 1926) and LL.D (Edinburgh, 1911 and Cambridge, 1927). He died at Oxford aged 86. He was awarded the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1928.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter I On looking Forward and Looking Backward

Chapter II Lost Illusions: The Papacy and The Holy Roman Empire

Chapter III The End of the Fifteenth Century

Chapter IV Man and the Universe in the Sixteenth Century

Chapter V Tendencies and Individuals. The Popes and The King of France

Chapter VI Tendencies and Individuals. Charles V and Philip II

Chapter VII Tendencies and Individuals. Henry VIII of England

Chapter VIII Tendencies and Individuals. Gustavus Vasa and Scandinavian Protestantism

Chapter IX The Opportunists Great and Small. Elizabeth and Catherine De Medici and Others

Chapter X The Turkish Danger, 1520-71

Chapter XI The Wars of the Sixteenth Century: (a) The Italian Wars, (b) The 'Wars of Religion'

Chapter XII The Occult in the Sixteenth Century

Index

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