A Usable Past

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPOLARITIES OF WESTERN CULTURE
 collapse section1  The Two Faces of Humanism  Stoicism and Augustinianism in Renaissance Thought
 I. Stoicism and Augustinianism: The Ancient Heritage
 II. Stoicism and Augustinianism: The Medieval Heritage
 III. The Stoic Element in Humanist Thought
 IV. The Augustinian Strain in the Renaissance
 V. Stoic and Augustinian Humanism: From Ambiguity to Dialectic
 2  Changing Assumptions in Later Renaissance Culture
 3  The Venetian Interdict and the Problem of Order
 4  The Secularization of Society in the Seventeenth Century
 5  Lawyers and Early Modern Culture

 collapse sectionII  THE DURABLE RENAISSANCE
 6  Anxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture
 7  The Politics of Commynes
 8  Postel and the Significance of Renaissance Cabalism
 expand section9  Renaissance and Reformation  An Essay on Their Affinities and Connections
 10  Venice Spain, and the Papacy  Paolo Sarpi and the Renaissance Tradition
 11  Venice and the Political Education of Europe

 collapse sectionIII  HISTORY AND HISTORIANS
 expand section12  Three Types of Historiography in Post-Renaissance Italy
 13  Gallicanism and the Nature of Christendom
 14 The Waning of the Middle Ages Revisited
 15  From History of Ideas to History of Meaning
 16  The Renaissance and the Drama of Western History

 collapse sectionIV  ESSAY IN APPLIED HISTORY
 17  Models of the Educated Man
 18  Socrates and the Confusion of the Humanities
 19  Christian Adulthood

 collapse sectionV  CODA
 20  The History Teacher as Mediator

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionINDEX

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