Europe In Renaissance And Reformation 1453 1659 PDF Download

Excerpt from Europe in Renaissance and Reformation, 1453-1659, Vol. 4 of 6 German towns was past. This was realised by the Venetian Diarist, who notes on the arrival of the news Of da Gama's achievement, The whole city was distressed and astounded, and the wisest heads take it to be the worst piece of information that we could ever have had. The great states Of our own time were in this period of change being built up in Christendom, which it had been the dream Of the Middle Ages to keep intact as one Church and one Empire. Of these young nations the chief were France, England, and Spain, each ruled by a strong kingi In Germany and Italy, on the other hand, the weakness Of the chief power in the first, and its total absence in the second, left the people of each so free to go their own way that they lacked sense enough Of common life to wish to be nations at all. But the variety for which these circum stances made room gives their history special interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.