Challenges to Authority. The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry.

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Published by New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2000

0300082207 / 9780300082203

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XV, 418 p. Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren, einige Seiten mit Kugelschreiberanstreichungen / Binding with signs of handling, some pages with ballpoint pen markings. - Contents Preface Introduction PETER ELMER 1 Renaissance and reform ANNE LAURENCE Introduction Reform before the Reformation Humanism and reform Humanism in pre-Reformation Germany The prelude to reform Luther Luther and humanism Luther and spiritual reform Luther and institutional reform Melanchthon Zwingli Calvin The Protestant Reformation: a Renaissance of the north? 2 The spread of reform ANNE LAURENCE Introduction The study of reform Augsburg Zwickau The Peasants' War The progress of reform: success or failure? Reform outside Germany: counter-reform or Catholic reform? Conclusion 3 The representation of reform ANNE LAURENCE, DAVID MATEER AND NICK WEBB Reform and ritual The debate about images: iconoclasm and iconophobia Reform and portraiture: Luther as 'hero' Music and the culture of reform Reformation and Renaissance visual culture 4 Lazarillo de Tormes KEITH WHITLOCK Introduction Background Lazarillo: humanist parody? Lazarillo and the humanist critique of poverty Autobiography: truth or fiction? Lazarillo as social commentary The friar, the pardoner and Luther The tambourine-painter, the chaplain and prosperity The constable, the civil service and illuminist vocabulary Anti-Spanish propaganda Western literary tradition: genealogy and innovation 5 Did science have a Renaissance? PETER ELMER Introduction Recent developments in the history of Renaissance science The Renaissance and the scientific revolution The anatomical revolution of the sixteenth century Renaissance natural philosophy Natural philosophy, the court and the role of patronage Galileo, the Medici, and scientific patronage in Renaissance Italy Conclusion 6 The 'dark side': occult philosophy, magic and witchcraft PETER ELMER Introduction Occult philosophy and Renaissance science Paracelsus and the Paracelsian revolution in medicine Renaissance demonology Conclusion 7 'Out of my door you witch': The Witch of Edmonton RICHARD DANSON BROWN Introduction: representing witches Witchcraft in England Collaboration in The Witch Studying The Witch The literary language of The Witch The Witch and The Merry Wives Conclusion: Renaissance drama and witchcraft 8 Montaigne on Montaigne ANTONY LENTIN Introduction Montaigne and the Essays Montaigne on Renaissance beliefs and attitudes Conclusion Glossary Acknowledgements Index. ISBN 9780300082203 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1060.

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Challenges to Authority. The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry.
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Elmer, Peter (ed.):
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New Haven, London: Yale University Press
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2000
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English
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9780300082203
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