{"product_id":"9781789545630","title":"The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700","description":"Author: Freeman, Charles\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781789545630\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Jun 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 752 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the ruins of the Roman Empire. The process of preservation of surviving texts, fragile at first, was strengthened under the Christian empire founded by Charlemagne in the eighth century; later, during the High Middle Ages, universities were founded and the study of philosophy was revived. Renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought provided the intellectual impetus for the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, whose ideas     aesthetic, political and scientific     were disseminated across Europe by the invention of the printing press. Equally momentous was Europe's encounter with the New World, and the resulting maritime supremacy which conferred global reach on Europe's merchants and colonists. \u003cbr\u003eVivid in detail and informed by the latest scholarship, \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e is powered not by the fate of kings or the clash of arms but by deeper currents of thought, inquiry and discovery, which first recover and then surpass the achievements of classical antiquity, and lead the West to the threshold of the Age of Reason. Charles Freeman takes the reader on an enthralling journey, and provides us with a vital key to understanding the world we live in today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of serious scholarship by an author who has clearly been everywhere, seen everything and read voraciously. But it is also a work written with great elan and, given its scope, undertaken with considerable courage' \u003cb\u003eChristopher Lloyd, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, 1988-2005\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the slow evolution of Western thought that restored legitimacy to independent examination and analysis, that eventually led to a celebration, albeit a cautious one, of reason over blind faith.' \u003cb\u003eStan Prager\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e is a very timely book and an excellently written and produced one. Freeman is a good host, a superb narrator and tells his story with aplomb' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636876988574,"sku":"UBD-9781789545630","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781789545630.jpg?v=1774398444","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781789545630","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}