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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... seems clear on the face of the evidence . But that in the course of this tradition ( as some of these scholars further claim ) the fundamental Christian solution absorbs the classical and humanistic elements , seems much more doubtful ...
... seems clear on the face of the evidence . But that in the course of this tradition ( as some of these scholars further claim ) the fundamental Christian solution absorbs the classical and humanistic elements , seems much more doubtful ...
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... seems to hold no particular emotional connotation for him . He is telling the truth , based upon fact and observation ( of various kinds ) and personal experience : that is his story . And if incidentally , he divorces human history ...
... seems to hold no particular emotional connotation for him . He is telling the truth , based upon fact and observation ( of various kinds ) and personal experience : that is his story . And if incidentally , he divorces human history ...
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... seems to stand on the threshold of the outright declaration of a philosophy of progress ; we have already seen part of one of his catalogues of " new " things - inventions , discoveries , etc. - which lead him to exclaim over the ...
... seems to stand on the threshold of the outright declaration of a philosophy of progress ; we have already seen part of one of his catalogues of " new " things - inventions , discoveries , etc. - which lead him to exclaim over the ...
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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