List of Illustrations
xix
Prelude:Philosophical Tennis Through the Ages
1(8)
Introduction:Dress Rehearsals for Permanent Change
9(2)
1282: The Sicilian Vespers
11(3)
1353: How to Survive the Black Death
14(10)
1381--1451: Lutherans Long Before Luther
24(8)
1452: The Third Great Communications Revolution
32(5)
I New Worlds For Old
Innovation on Sea and Land
37(3)
149: Columbus Discovers America
40(27)
1345--1498: Humanists Rampant
67(16)
II The Invention Of Human Beauty
And the End of Medieval Piety
83(2)
1445?--1564: Full Nakedness!
85(37)
1565--1680: Charring the Wood
122(7)
III New Thoughts For New Worlds
Deviant Monks
129(2)
1500--1517: Erasmus and Luther
131(30)
IV Reformation!
Luther Steps Forward
161(2)
1518--1521: From Dispute to Divide
163(22)
Intermission: Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, The Bad, And The UGLY)
A Portfolio of Egos
185(6)
V Protestant Pictures
And Other Northern Images
191(2)
1498--1528: Apocalypse Now
193(17)
1516--1535: Utopia Now and Then
210(8)
1522--1611: The Word of God Goes Forth-First in Hochdeutsch, Then in Shakespearean English
218(15)
1520s: Encounters and Evasions in Paris
233(11)
1525?--1569: The Ice Is Melting
244(11)
VI Christian vs. Christian
The Turns of the Screw
255(4)
1516--1525: From Zwingli to the Peasants' War
259(3)
1525--1564: From Princely Conversions to the Second Reformation
262(9)
1545--1563: Catholics Get Their Act Together
271(3)
1558--1603: The Religious Establishment of a Virgin Queen
274(7)
1562--1648: Let's Kill 'Em All!
281(8)
VII Human Love
How to Live on This Earth
289(3)
1531--1540: Nuns with Guns
292(1)
1572--1616: Men in the Middle
293(4)
1615--1669: The Deepening
297(6)
Postlude:Hope and Regret
303(10)
Notes and Sources 313(8)
Acknowledgments 321(2)
Permissions Acknowledgments 323(2)
Index 325