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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
by Arthur O. Lovejoy
by Arthur O. Lovejoy
Thom Dunn's review
bookshelves: british, century-13, century-14, century-15, century-16, century-17, christianity, classic, europe, france, government, history, lit-theory-crit, manifesto-polemic, medieval, mythology, a-own-softcover, philosophy, read-again, religion, renaissance, scholarship, shakespearean, text, history-of-ideas
Mar 26, 10
bookshelves: british, century-13, century-14, century-15, century-16, century-17, christianity, classic, europe, france, government, history, lit-theory-crit, manifesto-polemic, medieval, mythology, a-own-softcover, philosophy, read-again, religion, renaissance, scholarship, shakespearean, text, history-of-ideas
Other than Shakespeare's plays this is the ONE ESSENTIAL book--and phrase--to remember from the English Renaissance, it assays the foundation principle behind kingship, the political and social order, God and man. Some might wish to substitute Tillyard's The Elizabethan World Picture as THE ONE....but then you wouldn't have the all-encompassing phrase of this title to recall.
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