Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. General Introduction vii
4. PART ONE The Political Scene
5. The Rebirth of the Citizen on the Eve of the Renaissance Period 5
6. Popular Initiative in Renaissance France 27
7. PART TWO Old and New Traditions of Culture
8. Arms versus Letters: Towards a Definition of Spanish Fifteenth-Century Humanism 47
9. Patronage and Music in England1 59
10. PART THREE Arts and Letters
11. The Equestrian Monument from Cangrande della Scala to Peter the Great 73
12. Marguerite de Valois's Album of Verse 87
13. PART FOUR Renaissance and Reformation
14. The Third Generation of German Renaissance Humanists 105
15. Renaissance Science in Puritan New England 123
16. In Defense of Kepler 141
17. Concerning Clio, Concepts and Quantities 159
18. Notes on Contributors 169
19. Program Participants in the International Conference on the Meaning of the Renaissance 173
20. Index 175