Description: I. The Medieval Heritage: Classical Influences Plato. Aristotle. Cicero II. The Medieval Heritage: Christian and Jewish Conceptions of Life Paul of Tarsus. Moses Maimonides. Augustine. Benedict. Bonaventure. Thomas Aquinas. Bernard Gui. Church and state. Dante. III. The Medieval heritage: Economy, Society, Polity The manor. The town. The Ordinance of Laborers. Grant of two fairs at Aix-la-Chapelle. The King's mirror. Robert of Clari. Pope Innocent III. Genoese shipping. Las Siete Partidas. Magna Carta. The truce of God. The Goliard poets. IV. Centralized Government and the Secular Political Spirit Philippe de Commines. Henry VII of England. Niccolo Machiavelli. Jean Bodin. V. Early modern capitalism and the expansion of Europe Lucas Pacioli. Jacob Fugger. Christopher Columbus. The New World. Martin Luther. The German Peasant War. V I. The Moral Thought of the Humanist Renaissance P etrarch. Coluccio Salutati. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Pietro Pompanazzi. Giorgio Vasari. Baldassare Castiglione. Desiderius Erasmus. Thomas More. V II. The Reformation and National Churches J ohn Wycliffe. John Hus. Pope Pius II. Martin Luther. John Calvin. Sebastian Castellio. Richard Hooker. Ignatius of Loyola. The Council of Trent. The Veronese Inquisition. V III. The Development of Modern Science F rancis Bacon. Galileo Galilei. Rene Descartes. Isaac Newton. Blaise Pascal. IX . The Elaboration of the Sovereign State Ca rdinal Richelieu. Jacques Benigne Bousset. Francois Fenelon. Count de Saint-Simon. Jean Baptiste Colbert. The French West India Company. Thomas Mun. The Hat Act of 1732. X. Ab solutism and Constitutionalism: The British Experience James I of England. "An agreement of the people" and debates in Cromwell's Army Council. Thomas Hobbes. James Harrington. John Locke. XI. T he Enlightenment: Background and Ideals John Locke. Immanuel Kant. Jean A.N. de Condorcet. XII. The Enlightenment: Knowledge and Morality Volta ire. Claude Adrien Helvetius. Denis Diderot. David Hume. Immanuel Kant. XIII. The Enlightenment: Religion Voltai re. Jean Jacques Rousseau. David Hume. XIV. T he Enlightenment: Politics and Economics Freder ick the Great. Baron de Montesquieu. Jean Jacques Rousseau. James Madison. Adam Smith. Jean A.N. de Condorcet

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