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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I -- I -- 1 Renaissance and reform -- ANNE LAURENCE -- Introduction -- Reform before the Reformation -- Humanism and reform -- Humanism in pre-Reformation Germany -- The prelude to reform -- Luther -- Luther and humanism -- Luther and spiritual reform -- Luther and institutional reform -- Melanchthon -- Zwingli -- Calvin -- The Protestant Reformation: a Renaissance of the north? -- 2 The spread of reform -- ANNE LAURENCE -- Introduction -- The study of reform -- Augsburg -- Zwickau -- The Peasants' War -- The progress of reform: success or failure? -- Reform outside Germany: counter-reform or -- Catholic reform? -- Conclusion -- 3 The representation of reform -- ANNE LAURENCE, DAVID MATEER AND NICK WEBB -- Reform and ritual -- The debate about images: iconoclasm and iconophobia -- Reform and portraiture: Luther as 'hero' -- Music and the culture of reform -- Reformation and Renaissance visual culture -- 4 Lazarillo de 7rmnes -- KEITH WHITI ()( :K -- Introduction -- Background -- Lazarillo: huimanist parody? -- Lazarillo and the humanist critique of poverty -- Autobiography: :trulth or fiction? -- Lazari'llo as social commentary -- The friar, the pardoner and Luther -- The tambourine-painter, the chaplain and prosperity -- The constable, the civil service and illuminist vocabulary -- Anti-Spanish propaganda -- Western literary Iradition: genealogy and innovation -- 5 Did science Ihave a Renaissance? -- PETER ELMEI,t -- Introduction -- Recent developnients in the history of Renaissance science -- The Renaissance andl the scientific revolution -- The anatomical revolution of the sixteenth century -- Renaissance natulral philosophy -- Natural philosophy, the court and the role of patronage -- Galileo, the Medici, and scientific patronage in -- Renaissance Italy -- Conclusion -- 6 The 'dark side': occult philosophy, magic and -- witchcraft -- PETER ELMER -- Introduction -- Occult philosophy and Renaissance science -- Paracelsus and the Paracelsian revolution in medicine -- Renaissance demonology -- Conclusion -- 7 'Out of my door you witch': The Witch ofEdmonton -- RICHARD DANSON BROWN -- Introduction: representing witches -- Witchcraft in England -- Collaboration in The Witch -- Studying The Witch -- The literary language of The Witch -- The Witch and The Merry Wives -- Conclusion: Renaissance drama and witchcraft -- 8 Montaigne on Montaigne -- ANTONYLENTIN -- Introduction -- Montaigne and the Essays -- Montaigne on Renaissance beliefs and attitudes -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Index.