Plague and Pleasure Melvyn C. Resnick crafted in response to the

crafted in response to the alienating and depersonalizing forces of the modern world

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"A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit"

You hear other parents talk about the great things their kids are doing and you wonder

Plague and Pleasure Melvyn C. Resnick crafted in response to thePlague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination