The Counter-RenaissanceThis stimulating reassessment of Renaissance thought produces evidence of an intellectual revolt in the sixteenth century, led by such men as Calvin, Luther, Montaigne, and Machiavelli, that ran counter to the prevailing concepts of Christian humanism and the sovereignty of reason. The author explores the influence of this challenging movement on contemporaries and on their successors, "those enigmatic and volatile individuals whom we term the Elizabethans." Writing with impeccable scholarship, leavened by a delightful literary style, Mr. Haydn has achieved a masterpiece of intellectual history. -4e de couv. |
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... humanists , under the influence of Socrates and Cato , Cicero and Seneca , precluded their being much concerned with speculation about the nature of the universe and of God's ultimate universal laws for its main- tenance and ...
... humanists , under the influence of Socrates and Cato , Cicero and Seneca , precluded their being much concerned with speculation about the nature of the universe and of God's ultimate universal laws for its main- tenance and ...
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... humanists ' preoccupation with ethics . In the De Officiis he writes , When the Stoics speak of the supreme good as " living con- formably to nature , " they mean , as I take it , something like this : that we are always to be in accord ...
... humanists ' preoccupation with ethics . In the De Officiis he writes , When the Stoics speak of the supreme good as " living con- formably to nature , " they mean , as I take it , something like this : that we are always to be in accord ...
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... humanists to the tradi- tion we have been following , its main current ran through northern Europe , and especially Germany , the Lowlands and England . Ital- ian humanism , and to some extent that of France , concerned itself vastly ...
... humanists to the tradi- tion we have been following , its main current ran through northern Europe , and especially Germany , the Lowlands and England . Ital- ian humanism , and to some extent that of France , concerned itself vastly ...
Contents
PROLOGUE The Enigmatic Elizabethans | 1 |
2 The CounterRenaissance and the Vanity of Learning | 76 |
The CounterRenaissance and the Repeal of Universal | 131 |
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