Table Of Contents:
Readers Guide ix
Timeline of Events in the Renaissance and Reformation xi

Humanism 1(34)

Isotta Nogarola 3(9)

``On the Equal or Unequal Sin of Eve and Adam'' 3(9)

Niccold Machiavelli 12(11)

The Prince 12(11)

Ibn Khaldun 23(12)

The Muqaddimah 23(2)

Muslims in Spain (box) 25(10)

Renaissance Arts and Science 35(26)

Leonardo da Vinci 37(12)

Notebooks 37(12)

Galileo Galilei 49(12)

The Starry Messenger 49(6)

``A Grand Revolution'' (box) 55(6)

Drama and Literature 61(55)

William Shakespeare 63(15)

Merchant of Venice 63(1)

William Shakespeare (box) 64(14)

Margaret of Navarre 78(8)

Heptameron 78(1)

Margaret of Navarre (box) 79(7)

Miguel de Cervantes 86(13)

Don Quixote 86(2)

Miguel de Cervantes (box) 88(11)

Michel de Montaigne 99(9)

``Of Cannibals'' 99(2)

Michel de Montaigne (box) 101(7)

Margaret Cavendish 108(8)

The Description of the New World Called the Blazing World 108(1)

Margaret Cavendish (box) 109(7)

Protestant Reformation 116(43)

Martin Luther 118(12)

``The Ninety-Five Theses or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences'' 118(3)

Indulgences (box) 121(9)

Huldrych Zwingli 130(10)

``The Sixty-Seven Articles of Ulrich Zwingli'' 130(10)

John Calvin 140(10)

Ecclesiastical Ordinances 140(2)

Institutes of the Christian Religion (box) 142(8)

Elizabeth 150(9)

``Elizabeth, A Dutch Anabaptist martyr: A letter'' 150(9)

Catholic Reformation 159(32)

Ignatius of Loyola 161(10)

Spiritual Exercises 161(10)

Teresa de Avila 171(9)

The Life of Teresa of Jesus 171(4)

Ecstasy of St. Teresa (box) 175(5)

Roman Catholic Church 180(11)

``Profession of the Tridentine Faith'' 180(11)

Witch-hunts 191

Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger 192

Malleus Maleficarum 192
Index xv