Action and Conviction in Early Modern Europe : : Essays in Honor of E.H. Harbison / / Jerrold E. Seigel, Theodore K. Rabb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Rabb, Theodore K.,; Seigel, Jerrold E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bitton, Davis,; Brucker, Gene A.,; Carlson, A. J.,; Douglas, Richard M.,; Ferguson, J. Wilson,; Frye, Roland Mushat,; Gilbert, Felix,; Gilmore, Myron P.,; Hauben, Paul J.,; Hexter, J. H.,; Howell, Wilbur Samuel,; Lee, Maurice,; Major, J. Russell,; Monter, E. William,; Rabb, Theodore K.,; Seigel, Jerrold E.,; Smith, Lacey Baldwin,; Strayer, Joseph R.,; White, Lynn,; Williams, George Huntston,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1972
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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