I. Introduction: the Baroque century, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Expansion and contraction ; Watersheds ; Unity - by accident and by force ; The Calvinist diaspora ; Battlefields of the mind ; The search ...
Europe has been through many ages in its busy history: the age of discovery, the age of reason, the age of expansion, the age of destruction, and the age of unification. Now it is entering a new one: ...