| 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 |