num_pages: 304
description: In this brilliant new book, William J. Bouwsma amends the conventional view of the European Renaissance as the root and foundation of modern culture, arguing instead that while it had a beginning and a climax, the Renaissance also had an ending. Bouwsma examines closely the waning of the Renaissance culture of freedom and creativity, and he offers an original interpretation of the place of the Renaissance in modern culture. Intellectual History of the West Series
language: English
title: The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640
titlecomplete: The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 (Yale Intellectual History of the West Se)
characters: Miguel de Cervantes, Giovanni Botero, Richard Hooker, Robert Bellarmine, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon (philosopher), Michel de Montaigne, Galileo Galilei, Jean Bodin, Paolo Sarpi, Ben Jonson, Robert Burton
genres: History, Academic, European History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 35
series: Yale Intellectual History of the West
publisher: Yale University Press