I “stole” this book from my son’s bookshelf and I think that is where it mainly belongs: My son majored in history and he read Peter Burke’s work for an exam at University. ‘The Italian Renaissance’ is rather written for a student or scholar in (social) history than for a layperson who takes plea...
These attitudes may be conscious or unconscious. In a period of controversy people may be extremely conscious of their attitudes to religion or the state, while remaining virtually unaware that they hold a particular conception of space or time, reason or necessity. It is not easy to write the hi...