Renaissance and Reformation: The Intellectual Genesis

by Anthony Levi

Overview

This book presents a revisionist examination of the development of European intellectual culture between the high middle ages and 1550. It draws particular attention to the roles of Marsilio Ficino and Erasmus and analyzes major aspects of the work of Aquinas, Soctus, and Ockham, before moving on to Petrarch, Valla, Pico della Mirandola, the devotio moderna, More, Luther, Calvin, and their contemporaries. It establishes radically new perspectives on the Renaissance and the Reformation and on the continuity between them.
“It is an important work and sets forth new constructs about Renaissance and Reformation that must be considered.”—Marion Leathers Kuntz, American Historical Review
"[Levi’s] skillfully navigated intellectual journey is a tour de force."—Choice
“A refreshingly broad vision of the period.”—Times Literary Supplement
“A massive and learned work. . . . [A] great wealth of learning.”—History: Reviews of New Books

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300103465
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	05/11/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Prefatory Note	xi
	Introduction	1
Part 1	The Intellectual Problem of the Middle Ages
1	The Intellectual Parameters of Western Christendom	21
2	The Crisis of Scholasticism	40
Part 2	Towards a Resolution
3	Empire, Papacy, Petrarch, and the Italian Peninsula to 1400	71
4	The Quattrocento to the Death of Valla (1457)	95
5	The Florentine Academy	113
6	The Imitation of Christ	133
7	Fifteenth-century France	154
8	Paris, England, and Italy: Erasmus to 1511	175
9	Lefevre, Reuchlin, and Alcala	205
10	The New Century to 1516: Utopia and the Novum Instrumentum	230
Part 3	Schismatic Solutions
11	Germany and Luther	259
12	Protestantism: The Defeat of Erasmus	285
13	France 1520-1535	306
14	Secular Supremacy, England, and the Swiss Confederation, 1520-1535	334
	Conclusion	359
	Notes	370
	Thematic Index	440