In this Book
- Action and Conviction in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of E.H. Harbison
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics in the history of Europe from the later Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. They are concerned with the relations between outer morality and inner conviction.
Originally published in 1969.
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Table of Contents
- Ε. HARRIS HARBISON
- pp. v-ix
- Part 1: Faith, Reason, and the World of Action
- A Matter of Conscience
- pp. 32-51
- Utopia and Geneva
- pp. 77-89
- The Puritans and the Convocation of 1563
- pp. 133-153
- Francis Bacon and the Reform of Society
- pp. 169-194
- Part 2: Christians, Scholars, and the World of Thought
- Florence and its University, 1348-1434
- pp. 220-236
- Erasmus and Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi
- pp. 299-318
- John Locke and the New Logic
- pp. 423-452