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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... things are produced " ; Their labor is spent in investigating and handling the first principles of things and the highest generalities of nature ; whereas utility and the means of working result entirely from things intermediate . Hence ...
... things are produced " ; Their labor is spent in investigating and handling the first principles of things and the highest generalities of nature ; whereas utility and the means of working result entirely from things intermediate . Hence ...
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... things by an appeal to the " goodness " of God - which , being infinite , must make all possible things , and therefore all possible kinds of things . For , in Augustine's words , non essent omnia , si essent aequalia . " But , from ...
... things by an appeal to the " goodness " of God - which , being infinite , must make all possible things , and therefore all possible kinds of things . For , in Augustine's words , non essent omnia , si essent aequalia . " But , from ...
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... things good and honest from bad and hurtful.217 Louis Le Roy does not explicitly make this last " sinister " state- ment , yet the rest of what he has to say certainly implies it : In the beginning , men were very simple and rude , in ...
... things good and honest from bad and hurtful.217 Louis Le Roy does not explicitly make this last " sinister " state- ment , yet the rest of what he has to say certainly implies it : In the beginning , men were very simple and rude , in ...
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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