Die Wende. Wie Die Renaissance Begann by Stephen Greenblatt
How the World Became Modern
A richly told intellectual history that traces how the rediscovery of an ancient Epicurean poem in the early fifteenth century helped unsettle medieval worldviews and set in motion cultural, literary and scientific changes we now call the Renaissance. Focusing on the dramatic recovery of Lucretius’ De rerum natura and its contagion through humanist networks, printing, and political upheaval, it shows how atomistic and secular ideas challenged providential cosmologies, reshaped literary expression, and made possible new forms of inquiry and individual freedom. The narrative weaves close archival detective work with broader reflections on how texts can transform societies, arguing that a single recovered manuscript helped catalyze a far-reaching shift toward modernity.
- Published
- 2011
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 300-400
- Original Language
- English
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- Die Wende. Wie die Renaissance begann
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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