Writing and European Thought 16001830
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521455404
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Philosophy; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Philosophy Of Language; Renaissance; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; British Isles; Language and languages; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Written communication--History; Written communication; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe; History; Intellectual life
First sentence: From Florence of the fifteenth century sprang the occult fascinations of the late Renaissance, a 'churning turbid flood of Hermetic, cabalistic, Gnostic, theurgic, Sabaean, Pythagorean and generally mystical notions that broke over Europe ... carrying everything before it'.