Humanism and the Northern Renaissance

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Humanism and the Northern Renaissance

edited by Kenneth R. Bartlett and Margaret McGlynn

Canadian Scholars' Press, 2000

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This is a selection of primary source documents tracing the development of the culture, thought, politics, and religion of Northern Europe, from the Council of Constance to William Harvey's description of the circulation of the blood. The book will prove an excellent reader for any course of Early Modern Europe. Its wide selection of documents, covering most of Northern Europe from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century, will introduce students to the complexity of the cultures that defined the work of the Northern Renaissance and the coming of the Reformation. Writers include: John Calvin, Conrad Celtis, Cervantes, Charles V of Spain, Erasmus, Guillaume Filastre, William Harvey, Thomas a Kempis, Ignatius Loyala, Martin Luther, Peter of Mladonovice, Sir Thomas More, Marguerite de Navarre, Nostradamus, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Puis II), Francois Rabelais, William Roper, St. Teresa of Avila, Juan Luis Vives, John Wyclif.

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