Action and Conviction in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of E.H. Harbison

✍ Scribed by Theodore K. Rabb; Jerrold E. Seigel

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 485
Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 1972
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics in the history of Europe from the later Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. They are concerned with the relations between outer morality and inner conviction.

Originally published in 1969.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
PART ONE: FAITH, REASON, AND THE WORLD OF ACTION
France: the Holy Land, the Chosen People, and the Most Christian King
The Renaissance Monarchy as seen by Erasmus, More, Seyssel, and Machiavelli
A Matter of Conscience
James V and the Scottish Church, 1528-1542
Utopia and Geneva
Religion and Politics in the Thought of Gasparo Contarini
Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington: a Christian Laird in the Age of Reformation
The Puritans and the Convocation of 1563
Reform and Counter-Reform: the Case of the Spanish Heretics
Francis Bacon and the Reform of Society
PART TWO: CHRISTIANS, SCHOLARS, AND THE WORLD OF THOUGHT
The Iconography of Temperantia and the Virtuousness of Technology
Florence and its University, 1348-1434
The Teaching of Argyropulos and the Rhetoric of the First Humanists
Talent and Vocation in Humanist and Protestant Thought
Erasmus and Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi
Erasmus and the Reformers on Non-Christian Religions and Salus Extra Ecclesiam
Inflation and Witchcraft: the Case of Jean Bodin
History and Politics: the Controversy over the Sale of Offices in Early Seventeenth-Century France
Reason and Grace: Christian Epistemology in Dante, Langland, and Milton
John Locke and the New Logic
Index

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