The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary,
social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and
1670 that led beyond the bounds of reason into the nonrational,
irrational, and suprarational phenomena of the European
Renaissance. Robert S. Kinsman's introduction examines Renaissance
uses of ratio, "fancy" and "folly," melancholy, anxietas, and
alienation. Lynn White Jr. presents the essential thesis of the
collection in his view that the years 1300-1650 constituted one of
the most psychically disturbed eras ever in European history. The
"world-alienation" of the period is analyzed by Donald R. Howard,
illustrated by two poems of the late fourteenth century: Gawain and
the Green Knight and Toilus and Criseyde. The flourishing of
hermetic, magical, cabalistic, and astrological practices in the
Renaissance is described by John G. Burke. The gentleman and
courtier's physical and psychological tensions resulting from
literal exile or from psychic alienation from his lesser fellows
are investigated by Lauro Martines. An analysis of the "structures"
of Renaissance mysticism is provided by Kees W. Bolle. Gilbert
Reaney's essay examines ratio as the basis for the "measured" music
of the fourteenth century, against which the newer duple and triple
rhythms that came into prominence in the later half of the century
were assessed. An essay by Marc Bensimon concerns itself with
Renaissance modes of perception-as illustrated in works of art, of
literature, and of philosophic speculation-that seem shaped by
primordial anxieties caused by the passing of time and the fear of
death. The reflections of theological notions about the "dreadful
hidden will of God" in such pieces as Marlowe's Dr. Faustus are
given full background and perceptive treatment by Paul R. Sellin.
Robert Kinsman concludes with his study "Folly, Melancholy, and
Madness: Shifting Styles of Medical Analysis and Treatment,
1450-1675." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1974.
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