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The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic process that allows for the transformation of previously accepted truth.
The volume covers a broad and fascinating scope of subjects presented by leading scholars. Anthony Grafton's contribution on the fifteenth-century forger Annius of Viterbo emphasizes the role of imagination in the classical revival; Lisa Jardine demonstrates the way in which Erasmus helped turn a technical and rebarbative book by Rudolph Agricola into a sixteenth-century success story; Alan Charles Kors finds the roots of Enlightenment atheism in the works of French Catholic theologians; Donald R. Kelley follows the legal idea of "custom" from its formulation by the ancients to its assimilation into the modern social sciences; and Lawrence Stone shows how changes in legal action against female adultery between 1670 and 1857 reflect basic shifts in English moral values.
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Paul Paiement
reviewed The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe on May 05, 2019
The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe
Viewing the history of the world from 1914 through a little after 2004 shows many interesting different perspectives -- The chapters divide ages in new ways, like World War I, 1914-1916, and the age of revolutions, 1917 onward. After World War II we have different chronologies for Western Europe and Eastern Europe, including an important break in the East after the fall of Khrushchev after which the world realized that Soviet Russia could change rulers without killing the old one.
Despite a nice, but short passage showing the Portuguese government trying to convince its people to fund the continuation of a cruel and pointless African war when the people can see that everyone in Europe has running water except them, there are issues where the separation of how people lived from the chapters on the decisions made by the leaders makes the book a little weaker in parts than it could have been. Nevertheless it covers a remarkable amount of material -- things I'd never heard of, things presented in different ways, and remains very readable.
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