The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics in the history of Europe from the later Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. They are concerned with the relations between outer morality and inner conviction. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. xi*France: the Holy Land, the Chosen People, and the Most Christian King, pg. 3*The Renaissance Monarchy as seen by Erasmus, More, Seyssel, and Machiavelli, pg. 17*A Matter of Conscience, pg. 32*James V and the Scottish Church, 1528-1542, pg. 52*Utopia and Geneva, pg. 77*Religion and Politics in the Thought of Gasparo Contarini, pg. 90*Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington: a Christian Laird in the Age of Reformation, pg. 117*The Puritans and the Convocation of 1563, pg. 133*Reform and Counter-Reform: the Case of the Spanish Heretics, pg. 154*Francis Bacon and the Reform of Society, pg. 169*The Iconography of Temperantia and the Virtuousness of Technology, pg. 197*Florence and its University, 1348-1434, pg. 220*The Teaching of Argyropulos and the Rhetoric of the First Humanists, pg. 237*Talent and Vocation in Humanist and Protestant Thought, pg. 261*Erasmus and Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi, pg. 299*Erasmus and the Reformers on Non-Christian Religions and Salus Extra Ecclesiam, pg. 319*Inflation and Witchcraft: the Case of Jean Bodin, pg. 371*History and Politics: the Controversy over the Sale of Offices in Early Seventeenth-Century France, pg. 390*Reason and Grace: Christian Epistemology in Dante, Langland, and Milton, pg. 404*John Locke and the New Logic, pg. 423*Index, pg. 453