Also intriguing for the many questions it raises is the last chapter of Michael Hattaway's _Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature_ (Blackwell, 2005), entitled "Godliness."
Robin Reid
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Subject: Re: Essay on the Renaissance
I used to get a lot of mileage a few years ago in freshman lectures
from Giamati"s 'Hippolytus Among the Exiles', from Exile and Change,
Yale, 1984. My brief was a bit narrower than the one you describe
though. Best, J
J.B. Lethbridge
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Germaine Warkentin
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> I have a very soft spot for Ernest Hatch Wilkins' delightful old essay "An
> Hour in the Renaissance"; first published in 1923 and reprinted in The
> Invention of the Sonnet and Other Studies in Italian Literature (Rome:
> Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1959), 241-45. Perfect to give beginning
> students, and a good heads-up for advanced ones who have got so tied up in
> theoretical or historiographical issues that they're not as grounded as they
> might be. Germaine
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