Florence and its University, 1348-1434

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. PART ONE: FAITH, REASON, AND THE WORLD OF ACTION
4. France: the Holy Land, the Chosen People, and the Most Christian King 3
5. The Renaissance Monarchy as seen by Erasmus, More, Seyssel, and Machiavelli 17
6. A Matter of Conscience 32
7. James V and the Scottish Church, 1528-1542 52
8. Utopia and Geneva 77
9. Religion and Politics in the Thought of Gasparo Contarini 90
10. Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington: a Christian Laird in the Age of Reformation 117
11. The Puritans and the Convocation of 1563 133
12. Reform and Counter-Reform: the Case of the Spanish Heretics 154
13. Francis Bacon and the Reform of Society 169
14. PART TWO: CHRISTIANS, SCHOLARS, AND THE WORLD OF THOUGHT
15. The Iconography of Temperantia and the Virtuousness of Technology 197
16. Florence and its University, 1348-1434 220
17. The Teaching of Argyropulos and the Rhetoric of the First Humanists 237
18. Talent and Vocation in Humanist and Protestant Thought 261
19. Erasmus and Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi 299
20. Erasmus and the Reformers on Non-Christian Religions and Salus Extra Ecclesiam 319
21. Inflation and Witchcraft: the Case of Jean Bodin 371
22. History and Politics: the Controversy over the Sale of Offices in Early Seventeenth-Century France 390
23. Reason and Grace: Christian Epistemology in Dante, Langland, and Milton 404
24. John Locke and the New Logic 423
25. Index 453