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A belated contribution to this thread: the introductory chapter to Rosalie Colie's gorgeous Paradoxica Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox offers many touchstones for starting to think about Renaissance thought and writing, including brief bits on rhetoric and praise, humanism, Renaissance ideas of Wisdom and authority, pointed evocations of texts by Paul, Erasmus, Pico, Montaigne, and Donne. Ken Gross On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Reid Robert L. <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > ________________________________________ > From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of J. B. Lethbridge [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:08 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > 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 > (Gen. Ed., The Manchester Spenser) > English Seminar > Tuebingen University > Wilhelmstrasse 50 > 72074 Tuebingen > Germany > > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Germaine Warkentin > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> 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 >> >> -- >> *********************************************************************** >> Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus), University of Toronto >> [log in to unmask] >> http://www.individual.utoronto.ca/germainew/ >> >> "May you be given bread and beer" >> -- Ancient Egyptian Prayer for the Dead >> >> ***********************************************************************