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John Carroll.
The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited; new edition.
Published Melbourne: Scribe, 2010 (previous edn. was 2004).
ISBN 9781921640223.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Griffin Press, Australia.
Size: 135x208x23mm.
Page count: text viii,278pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition very good: this is an ex-display copy so shows evidence of handling, but otherwise unused.

This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price Aus$ 29.95]
Weight without packaging: 320g.

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Seeks to site the cause of all modern ills in the emergence of humanism at the end of the Renaissance.

Emphasis post-medieval. Contents: Glory of the Renaissance; Ambassadors of Death; Protestant Reformation; Alternative Reformation; Discord; Bourgeois fusion; Enlightenment & romance; Mockery, mockery everywhere; Into the heart of darkness; Unconscious; Sacred rage; Last stand; The end — September 11, 2001.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: list of works studied
Index: yes

See also | Medievalism | Humanism |
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