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Premises and Motifs in Renaissance Thought and Literature
About this book
In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion" throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arrangement of the created order "from the Mushrome to the Angels" or the horizontal progress of history along a linear path from the Creation to the Last Judgment.
Originally published in 1982.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- To the Reader
- Abbreviations
- 1. "Quaterniond into Their Celestiall Princedoms": The Orders of the Angels
- 2. "Ascending by Degrees Magnificent": Connections Between Heaven and Earth
- 3. "The Exact Compute of Time": Estimates of the Year of Creation
- 4. "Those Mysterious Things They Observe in Numbers": Approaches to Numerology
- 5. "With His Face Towards Heaven": The Upright Form of Man
- 6. "The First Promise Made to Man": The Edenic Origins of Protestantism
- 7. "That Great and Indisputable Miracle": The Cessation of the Oracles
- 8. "The Beast with Many Heads": Views on the Multitude
- 9. "The Bloody and Cruell Turke": The Judgments of God in History
- 10. "A Palpable Hieroglyphick": The Fable of Pope Joan
- 11. "A Horror Beyond Our Expression": The Dimensions of Hell
- 12. "A Principle of Infinite Love": The Salvation of Satan
- Index Nominum
- Index Rerum