Europe : A Cultural History

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Contents
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Prologue
PART I Continuity and change: new ways of surviving
1 Before ‘Europe’: towards an agricultural and sedentary society
2 Rome and its empire: the effects and limits of cultural integration
3 An empire lost-an empire won? Christianity and the Roman Empire
PART II Continuity and change: new forms of belief
4 Towards one religion for all
5 Three worlds around the Inner Sea: western Christendom, eastern Christendom and Islam
6 One world, many traditions. Elite culture and popular cultures: cosmopolitan norms and regional variations
Interlude
PART III Continuity and change: new ways of looking at man and the world
7 A new society: Europe’s changing views of man
8 A new society: Europe as a wider world
9 A new society: Europe and the wider world since the fifteenth century
10 A new society: migration, travel and the diffusion and integration of culture in Europe
11 A new society: the ‘Republic of Letters’ as a virtual and virtuous world against a divided world
12 A new society: from Humanism to the Enlightenment
PART IV Continuity and change: new forms of consumption and communication
13 Europe’s revolutions: freedom and consumption for all?
14 Progress and its discontents: nationalism, economic growth and the question of cultural certainties
15 Europe and the other worlds
16 The ‘Decline of the Occident’-the loss of a dream? From the nineteenth to the twentieth century
17 Towards a new Europe?
Epilogue
Notes
Index