Preface Acknowledgements Dates Map Germany and the Low Countries 1. European Disunion: Introduction to the Reformation 2. Strong, Silent Type: The Printing Press 3. Lords of Language: Northern Humanism 4. Opposites Attract: Nicholas of Cusa 5. Books That Last Forever: Erasmus 6. One Way or Another: Northern Scholasticism 7. Faith, No More: Martin Luther 8.
Take Your Choice: The Erasmus-Luther Debate 9. Depicting What Cannot Be Depicted: Two Renaissance Artworks 10. More Lutheran than Luther: Philip Melanchthon 11. No Lord but God: the Peasants'' War and Radical Reformation 12. Slowly But Surely: Huldrych Zwingli 13. We Are Not Our Own: John Calvin 14. I Too Can Ask Questions: Protestant Scholasticism 15. Perhaps Not Wrong: Cornelius Agrippa 16.
Just Add Salt: Paracelsus and Chemistry 17. The Acid Test: Theories of Matter 18. Born to Be Contrary: Toleration in the Netherlands 19. Everything is Mine, and Nothing: Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism 20. The World Doesn''t Revolve Around You: Copernicus 21. Best of Both Worlds: Tycho Brahe 22. Music of the Spheres: Johannes KeplerFrance 23. Do As the Romans Did: Early French Humanism 24.
Pearls of Wisdom: Marguerite of Navarre 25. Seriously Funny: Rabelais 26. Word Perfect: Logic and Language in Renaissance France 27. Life Is Not Enough: Medicine in Renaissance France 28. Make it Simple: Peter Ramus 29. Divide and Conquer: Ramism 30. Believe at Your Own Risk: Toleration in France 31. Constitutional Conventions: the Huguenots 32.
One to Rule Them All: Jean Bodin 33. Pen Pals: Later French Humanism 34. Not Matter, But Me: Montaigne 35. What Do I Know? French Skepticism 36. The Tenth Muse: Marie Le Jars de GournayEngland and Scotland 37. God''s is the Quarrel: The English Reformation 38. To Kill a King: The Scottish Reformation 39. Write Till Your Ink Be Dry: British Humanism 40.
No Place Will Please Me So: Thomas More 41. With Such Perfection Govern: English Political Thought 42. The World''s Law: Richard Hooker 43. Heaven-Bred Poesy: Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser 44. Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? William Shakespeare 45. A Face Without a Heart: Shakespeare''s Hamlet and Individualism 46. Brave New World: Shakespeare''s Tempest and Colonialism 47. Weird Sisters: Shakespeare''s Macbeth and Witchcraft 48.
She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence: Women''s Spiritual Literature 49. I''ll Teach You Differences: British Scholasticism 50. If This Be Magic, Let It Be an Art: John Dee 51. Nature''s Mystery: English Renaissance Science 52. The Eye Sees Not Itself But By Reflection: Theories of Vision 53. Metal More Attractive: William Gilbert and Magnetism 54. Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores: Robert FluddThe Counter-Reformation 55. Don''t Give Up Pope: Catholic Reformation 56.
Cancel Culture: The Inquisition 57. Longitudinal Studies: Exploration and Science 58. Lambs to the Slaughter: Debating the New World 59. Marketplace of Letters: Iberian Humanism 60. The Dark Night Rises: Spanish Mysticism 61. Band of Brothers: the Jesuits 62. Not Doubting Thomas: the Aquinas Revival 63. Secondary Schools: Iberian Scholasticism 64.
Could''ve, Would''ve, Should''ve: Free Will in the Second Scholastic 65. Better Than Nothing: Metaphysics in the Second Scholastic 66. The Price is Right: Law and Economics in the Second Scholastic 67. By Appointment Only: Political Philosophy in the Second Scholastic 68. Touch Me With Your Madness: Cervantes'' Don Quixote 69. Take Your Medicine: Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani 70. Outsider Philosophy: The Cheese and the Worms 71. Cardinal Rule: Robert Bellarmine 72.
Trial and Error: Galileo and the Inquisition Further reading.