Writing and European Thought 16001830
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521025027
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Written communication--History; Written communication--History Written commun; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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'.