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Seeds of virtue and knowledge

Maryanne Cline Horowitz c1998 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9780691044637 (hardcover)
  • 9781400843770 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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  • Frontmatter
  • ILLUSTRATIONS (page ix)
  • PREFACE (page xiii)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xvii)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 3)
  • CHAPTER ONE Stoic Seeds of Virtue and Sparks of Divinity (page 21)
  • CHAPTER TWO The Challenge to Christian Theologians (page 35)
  • CHAPTER THREE Medieval and Renaissance Vegetative Images (page 57)
  • CHAPTER FOUR Ficino: Neo-Platonic Ascent through Love and Education (page 81)
  • CHAPTER FIVE Italian Renaissance Humanism: Rebirth and Flowering of the Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (page 96)
  • CHAPTER SIX Vegetative Language of Virtue and Vice in Discourses on the Dignity or Depravity of Humankind (page 119)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Northern Renaissance Humanism: Cultivating and Transplanting the Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (page 155)
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Bodin: "All the Ancient Hebrews and Academics Have Held" (page 181)
  • CHAPTER NINE Montaigne: Seeds of Virtue in Peasants and Amerindians (page 206)
  • CHAPTER TEN Charron: Seeds of Virtue for Virtue's Own Sake (page 223)
  • EPILOGUE (page 238)
  • NOTES (page 257)
  • INDEX NOMINUM (page 349)
  • INDEX RERUM (page 361)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ENHR 114.456 (Apr. 1999): 425-426 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199904%29114%3A456%3C425%3ASOVAK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
AHR 104.4 (Oct. 1999): 1269 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199910%29104%3A4%3C1269%3ASOVAK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
RQ 52.4 (Winter 1999): 1161-1163 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-4338%28199924%2952%3A4%3C1161%3ASOVAK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
APSR 92.4 (Dec. 1998): 932-933 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28199812%2992%3A4%3C932%3ASOVAK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
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