Author: Henry Hallam
Title: Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries in Three Volumes
Description: London, John Murray, 1847. Leather. A beautiful set of the Introduction to the Literature of Europe by Henry Hallam. Complete in three volumes. Third edition. Henry Hallam (9 July 1777 – 21 January 1859) was an English historian. The Introduction to the Literature of Europe continues a topic broached in the View of the Middle Ages. In the first chapter Hallam sketches the state of literature in Europe down to the end of the 14th century: the extinction of ancient learning which followed the fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Christianity; the preservation of the Latin language in the services of the church; and the revival of letters after the 7th century. For the first century and a half of his period he is mainly occupied with a review of classical learning, taking short decennial periods and noticing works which they produced. For the period 1520–1550 there are separate chapters on ancient literature, theology, science, speculative philosophy and jurisprudence, the literature of taste and other miscellaneous literature; and the subdivisions of subjects is carried further in later periods. Thus poetry, the drama and polite literature form the subjects of separate chapters. An author may be mentioned in many chapters: Shakespeare, Grotius, Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes appear in half a dozen different places. In full tree calf bindings with gilt embellishment to the spines and edges of the boards. Externally, very smart with just minor shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with some occasional scattered light spots, predominantly to the front and rear end papers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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