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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Page 261
... rules of procedure disgust him as much as they do Mon- taigne : To make Judgement wholly by their Rules is the Humour of a Scholler . They perfect Nature , and are perfected by Experi- ence : For Naturall Abilities , are like Naturall ...
... rules of procedure disgust him as much as they do Mon- taigne : To make Judgement wholly by their Rules is the Humour of a Scholler . They perfect Nature , and are perfected by Experi- ence : For Naturall Abilities , are like Naturall ...
Page 568
... rules . All naturall ; constant and generall ; whereof civility and ceremonie are daughters , but bastards ... rules of living are laid out by Art - in fact , he has had a hand in their making himself . For Montaigne , the rules of ...
... rules . All naturall ; constant and generall ; whereof civility and ceremonie are daughters , but bastards ... rules of living are laid out by Art - in fact , he has had a hand in their making himself . For Montaigne , the rules of ...
Page 596
... rules follow honor and reason , or honor alone . It is on the former grounds that Sidney , for instance , indicts ... rule of all things serious " becomes “ the fatal thirst of his ambi- tion . " 143 So Fulke Greville , in his ...
... rules follow honor and reason , or honor alone . It is on the former grounds that Sidney , for instance , indicts ... rule of all things serious " becomes “ the fatal thirst of his ambi- tion . " 143 So Fulke Greville , in his ...
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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