A Usable Past |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
INTRODUCTION |
POLARITIES OF WESTERN CULTURE |
1 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 |
II 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 |
9 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 |
III HISTORY AND HISTORIANS |
12 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 |
IV ESSAY IN APPLIED HISTORY |
• | 17 Models of the Educated Man |
• | 18 Socrates and the Confusion of the Humanities |
• | 19 Christian Adulthood |
V CODA |
• | 20 The History Teacher as Mediator |
Notes |
INDEX |