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The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

Autor Keith Thomas
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 feb 2009
How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values of the period, while casting incidental light on some of the perennial problems of human existence. Consideration of the origins of the modern ideal of human fulfilment and of obstacles to its realization in the early modern period frames an investigation that ranges from work, wealth, and possessions to the pleasures of friendship, family, and sociability. The cult of military prowess, the pursuit of honour and reputation, the nature of religious belief and scepticism, and the desire to be posthumously remembered are all drawn into the discussion, and the views and practices of ordinary people are measured against the opinions of the leading philosophers and theologians of the time.The Ends of Life offers a fresh approach to the history of early modern England, by one of the foremost historians of our time. It also provides modern readers with much food for thought on the problem of how we should live and what goals in life we should pursue.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199247233
ISBN-10: 0199247234
Pagini: 428
Ilustrații: 14 black and white plates and 10 black and white halftones
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 39 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

It is full of surprises, packed with information that no one else could have found and so witty and absorbing.
No one else could have broached such an ambitious subject.
A great historian...remarkable book.
A compellingly readable book, richly researched, fascinatingly detailed, delightfully written.
Thomas has formidable organisational ability, and an unerring eye for detail. Almost every page offers something to intrigue, amuse, provoke.
'The Ends of Life' is a compellingly readable book, richly researched, fascinatingly detailed, delightfully written.
This is...a masterly series of impressions designed to provoke the reader to further thought and study.
It takes phenomenal learning and scholarly chutzpah to pull off a book like this.
Pure delight.
Let's thanks Keith Thomas for writing such a brave and sensitive book.
Any new book by Sir Keith Thomas is a major event.
It's full of wonderful sentences and phrases.
The Ends of Life is captivating.
The sheer wealth and diversity of material in 'The Ends of Life' makes it a fascinating read.
It is hard indeed to imagine a better introduction to the early modern world. It will be immediately and universally recognized as indispensable, not just for historians, but for anyone with an interest in the past.'
Thomas's connecting prose is graceful and sometimes crisply epigrammatic, 'The Ends of Life' is a pleasure to read.
'The Ends of Life'...scatters bright insights into the habits of thought of early modern England.
Endlessly fascinating...elegant, incisive and entertaining book.
The writing is lucid and elegant, peppered with dry wit and overseen by an infallible eye for anecdotes.
Where Thomas excels, as ever, is in his eye for luminous supporting detail.
A teeming historical survey.
A triumphal demonstration that one of our leading historians is still at the height of his powers.
Exhilaratingly illuminating.
Fascinating book.

Notă biografică

Sir Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College and former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of several highly acclaimed books on early modern England, including Religion and the Decline of Magic, which won the Wolfson Literary Award for History in 1972. A former trustee of the National Gallery and the British Museum, he holds honorary doctorates from eleven universities. He is an Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society and was President of the British Academy between 1993 and 1997.