Unity and Difference in European Cultures
Contributors: Neil Thomas (Editor); Francoise H.M.Le Saux (Editor)
Publisher: Durham Modern Languages Series
Published: December 31, 1998
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780907310396
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Studies; Literature: Texts; German
First sentence: When, in 1799, the German Romantic Novalis wrote his twenty-page rhapsody, Die Christenheit oder Europa ['Christianity or, in other words, Europe'] he was looking back at the European Middle Ages, which he took to be 'marvellous times, when Europe was one