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... , Bruni criticizes Niccolò Niccoli’s cultural extremism and advances a moderate ideal of humanism that seeks to revise and incorporate nonhumanist traditions instead of rejecting them outright. In doing so, Bruni also intends to shield his ideal of humanism from the attack of the traditionalist sector...

... of the enchanter Comus. In this work, Milton puts forward a defense of virtue, culminating in the Lady’s speech on temperance and just moderation against Comus’s attempt to seduce her: If every just man that now pines with want Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly...

... itself in Gregory s writings, but it is presented as an inferior motive instrumental for moderating human behavior. Gregory maintains that when a person contemplates committing a sin, outward shame (verecundia exte- rior) can motivate a return to oneself, imposing judgment from within. If a person...

... of such criticism is to read what appears to be a humane, enlightened, or even spiritualized dis- cipline as only a method of political control more effective than corporal punishment. Jonathan Dollimore’s well-known essay on Measure for Mea- sure classically...

... category: it is whatever comes before the modern. But where, or what, or, more especially, when is the modern? As soon as we ask the question, we can see that moder- nity, no less than premodernity, is always a loaded term, bearing the weight of a revolutionary certainty that needs to legitimize its...

...)? In short, how much do the often speculative and sometimes procataleptic interventions of problem-solving encourage the human activity, the manic, anticipatory busyness, that causes and accelerates climate cataclysm? 1 Catastrophe in literature does not allow us to admire shipwreck from the shore, lazily...

...Stephen M. Fallon In a famous passage, the Son of God in Paradise Regained dismisses classical philosophers for their ignorance of “how man fell” and for their confidence in human sufficiency to attain virtue. “In themselves,” the Son says dismissively, they “seek virtue.” By putting this argument...

... Throughout the letters, she teaches that, in making policy, one should always choose the road of moderation. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:1, Winter 2008 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2007-021  © 2008 by Duke University Press The queen mother adopted...

... the hidden ide- ological agenda that informs the portrayal of the landscape, which in turn promotes the ideology. The paintings of the period fashioned an ideal image of rural life, suggesting a “stable, uniŽed, almost egalitarian society.”2 When one examines the English society of the day, however...

... of the moderate Newtonian worldview accord with a belief structure intrinsic to Freemasonry. British Freemasonry thus carried out the “institutionalization of that Newtonian creed” and “the mentality of official Masonry”; that is, “its taste for science, its craving for order and stability, and above all its...

... of Holland — first, in Nieuwkoop (1652 – 60), then Hoorn (1660 – 67) and, after 1667, in Amsterdam. As a Remonstrant — that is, a latitudinarian Dutch Protestant, a proponent of Jacobus Arminius’s moderate Calvinism — Brandt strongly opposed Dutch Reformed orthodoxy and its enduring alliance...

... of the good and of human flourishing, even if sinful medieval Christians were unable to live up to the ideals of that unified Christendom. Great church, pity about the Christians. In the rush to step off the podium before he’s unceremoni- ously pushed off, Author 1 neglects to mention less attractive...

... Augustine to Calvin have had serious reservations about Seneca’s for- mulation, even when they are otherwise sympathetic to the Stoic outlook on life. Such an ideal is not Christian, they argue; indeed, they follow ancient critics of Stoicism in saying it is not even human.39...

..., as a bondage of sin. Indeed, the neo-­Stoic ethical ideal of a carefully regulated emotional self provides Ane Detectioun with a useful background against which Mary’s intemperance could be gauged. As John D. Staines has argued, the main goal of the pamphlet was to portray Mary as a woman who “cannot...

...,” is as inexorable in its slide toward pervasive economic injus- tice and moral confusion as Gregory’s account makes it out to be, are there still grounds from which to launch a moral critique of the way things have turned out? What causal powers if any remain for human agency in a nar- rative of modernity...

... and the social body paramount,” labor is the central fact of human existence.35 Of course, the practical implications of this vision for intellectual work, or any work, are far from clear. As David Aers has discussed at length, the vagrancy legislation that Middleton shows promoted the ideal...

... the formula for ideal beauty in mathematical terms, as symmetry and proportion between the parts. 45 But alongside the canon of ideal beauty, artists, like physicians, became interested in the variety of human types. 46 Leonardo da Vinci's famous grotesque heads are a notable example of this interest...

... the final line suggests not a communist giant yearning for Eden but a mid-Tudor commoner yearning for the fifteenth-century utopia of low rents. In 1548, Somerset’s enclosure commissioner John Hales described the ideal “body of the commonwealth” as one in which “all the members shall live in a due...

... masculinity, indeed of Roman humanity;30 the troops are fierce, barbarian, animal even. Controlling passions and showing modera- tion plays no part in this world. Thus, in the separation of military and civilian service, what had been complementary aspects of the early Roman aristocratic masculine ideal...

.... In this interaction, these bodies are mutually (re)constitutive, a fundamentally Galenic experience. The interpenetration empowers the abject and threatens the stability of a hierarchical system founded upon knowledge of the body, because while that knowledge results in the idealized human form in Vesalius’s...