Article: The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.

That the period of the Renaissance - the turning point between the medieval and the modern - is of great significance in the history of Europe is beyond dispute. But its exact character and the true nature of its significance are the subject of endless discussion. Just how far perspectives have changed over one hundred and fifty years can be seen by the degree to which John Hale's considerable new work differs in its approach from Jacob Burckhardt's classic The Civilization of the Renaissance. For, unlike Burckhardt, Hale is no longer concerned simply with Italy. The northern Renaissance along the Rhine and the Loire, the Atlantic trade routes spreading out in the sixteenth ...

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