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Author Lucas, Henry Stephen, 1889-1961, author

Title The Renaissance and the Reformation / Henry S. Lucas
Edition Second edition
Published New York : Harper & Row, [1960]
©1960
©1960

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 W'PONDS  940.21 1960 Luc  AVAILABLE
Description xxiii, 757 pages : maps, plates, geneaological tables ; 25 cm
Series Harper's historical series
Harper's historical series.
Contents Book one : The Renaissance. Introduction:What Is the Renaissance? I. New Secular Foundations : 1. Political Milieu of the Renaissance and Reformation: States Outside Italy. 2. Political Milieu of the Renaissance and Reformation: States of Italy. II. Spiritual foundations of late Medieval Culture : 3. The Church: Teaching Organization and Triumphs. 4. The Church: Problems and Crises. III. Trials Confronting the Church : 5. The Papacy at Avignon. The Great Schism and the Councils. 6. Popular Religion at the Close of the Middle Ages. IV. Late Medieval Chivalric Life and Letters : 7. The Passing of Chivalric Ideals. 8. Late Medieval Literary Expression. V. Late Medieval Practical, Philosophical, and Artistic Achievement : 9. Medieval Business and Technical Skill. 10. Bequest of Medieval Thought and Education. 11. The Acme of Gothic Art. VI. The Early Renaissance : 12. The Birth of Humanism. 13. The Cult of Classical Letters. VII. Quattrocento Renaissance Culture Under Florentine Leadership : 14. The Advent of Quattrocento Renaissance Art. 15. Medici Renaissance Patrons. VIII. Quattrocento Renaissance Culture Outside Florence : 16. Renaissance in Northern Italy (Outside Tuscany) and in Umbria. 17. Renaissance Rome and Naples: Its Pagan Note. 18. Artistic Expression During the High Renaissance. IX. Political Crises in High Renaissance Italy : 19. Italy Invaded by French King Charles VIII, 1494-1495. 20. The Papacy of the High Renaissance: Political and Artistic. 21. Politics During the High Renaissance. X. Novel Creations of the High Renaissance : 22. New Social and Literary Forms. 23. Scientific Invention and Thought. 24. Economic and Geographic Revolution. XI. Renaissance Art Outside Italy : 25. Renaissance Influence on North European Gothic Art. XII. Northern Humanism from Erasmus to Shakespeare : 26. Beginnings of Humanism in Northern Europe. 27. Renaissance Letters from Erasmus to Shakespeare. Book two : The Reformation and Catholic Revival : Introduction: What Are the Reformation and the Catholic Revival? I. Breakup of Religious Unity in Western Europe : 1. Genesis of Luther's Ideas. 2. Rise of Lutheranism. II. Lutheranism Ascendant : 3. Triumph of Lutheranism in Germany. 4. Lutheranism in Scandinavian and Other Countries. III. Novel Protestant Teaching : 5. Humanist and Sacramentarian Endeavors at Reform. 6. Reformation in Southwestern Germany. 7. The Anabaptist Revolt. IV. Protestant Movements in England, Spain, and Italy : 8. The Anglican Revolt. 9. Failure of Reformation Movements in Spain and Italy. V. The Peace of Augsburg : An Epoch in Protestantism : 10. Lutheranism and Balance of Power : The Peace of Augsburg, 1555. VI. The Calvinist Revolt : 11. Church and Dissent in France: The Reign of Francis I. 12. Beginnings of Calvinism: Religious Movements in French Switzerland. 13. Calvinism in Geneva. VII. Leadership of Calvinist Thought in Protestantism : 14. Spread of Calvinism: Low Countries and Central Europe. 15. Spread of Calvinism: France and Scotland. VIII. Catholic Reform : 16. The Foundations of the Catholic Revival. 17. New Religious Orders. 18. Reform in the Papacy. 19. The Papacy Renovated and Assertive. IX. Catholic Political Reaction : 20. The Catholic Cause in Spain and Scotland. 21. French Catholicism and Low Country Calvinism. Genealogical Tables
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 739-750) and index
Subject Reformation.
Renaissance.
SUBJECT Europe -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045687 -- 1453-1684
LC no. 60007014
ISBN 0060440902
9780060440909