This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER THREE THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND UNCONSCIOUSLY at first and then consciously the great new force of humanism had by the middle of the fifteenth century become the all controlling urge of social life in Italy. Its expression was correspondingly subject to the consideration of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER THREE THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND UNCONSCIOUSLY at first and then consciously the great new force of humanism had by the middle of the fifteenth century become the all controlling urge of social life in Italy. Its expression was correspondingly subject to the consideration of convenience and comfort, as well as luxury and show, as a natural sequence of the conscious knowledge of the physical needs and possibilities of the body in its relation to the material universe. Looked at from this angle of vision a new view of life became universal, the natural consequence being the organization of a different social expression that developed so rapidly as to reach complete fruition in the first quarter of the next century. Alone and quite isolated from other countries this new institution sprang up and developed in Italy, based on the creeds of the ancients, interpreted in the new light of humanism, where the intellect and senses were finding an equal satisfaction, and the mediaeval spiritual idea lanquished. It was, however, very different in the rest of Europe. We read of England as, by comparison with Italy, "a barbaric country, in which food and warlike prowess were the chief concerns of men." In France, devastated by wars, with its spiritual ecstasy broken and no longer a source of power, the old system was still in a death struggle with newly awakened, unformulated, and unexpressed desires. The period of Louis XI (1461-1483) witnessed the final combat the details of which are perhaps too well in mind to require repetition. The contest between liberty and servitude, relics and reality, justice and revenge, reached its climax during the half frenzied reign of this, the strangest of all French kings, in whose time there was...
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