This Is A New Release Of The Original 1885 Edition.

Tilley's essay is written from the perspective that the French Renaissance Literary movement presents more a record of a great national literary shift than of individual men of letters. Also, that it was a faithful reflection of a corresponding change in the whole social and intellectual life of the people. He believes that the literature of a nation is more or less an index to its moral and intellectual state, more so in times of great stress and fermentation, which was occurring during the French Renaissance. Tilley has also included a sketch of French mediaeval literature so the reader can understand what the new French Renaissance movement was replacing. Contents: The Character of the Renaissance in France; The Antecedents of the Renaissance in France; and The Beginnings of the Renaissance in France.

Tilley's essay is written from the perspective that the French Renaissance Literary movement presents more a record of a great national literary shift than of individual men of letters. Also, that it was a faithful reflection of a corresponding change in the whole social and intellectual life of the people. He believes that the literature of a nation is more or less an index to its moral and intellectual state, more so in times of great stress and fermentation, which was occurring during the French Renaissance. Tilley has also included a sketch of French mediaeval literature so the reader can understand what the new French Renaissance movement was replacing. Contents: The Character of the Renaissance in France; The Antecedents of the Renaissance in France; and The Beginnings of the Renaissance in France.

In today's demands for moral absolutes, the puritanism of early Christian Donatists is reflected. Maureen A. Tilley's study gives new insight into the Donatist church by focusing attention on the surviving Donatist controversies. She persuasively shows how Donatist interpretations of Scripture correlate with changes in the social setting of their church.

The Donatist Church of North Africa was known as the Church of the Martyrs, yet its martyr stories are virtually unknown. The Donatists lived in Africa Proconsularis, Numidia and Mauretania (present-day Tunisia and Algeria), and their communities produced songs, sermons, pamphlets and stories of martyrs. These documents were suppressed in antiquity, and few of them survived. They remained untranslated, and were therefore mainly ignored by scholars, who instead relied on what the opponents of the Donatists had to say.

The right to access information is explored in this book. The focus is on the South African law – said to be the "strongest access to information law in the world" – but there is an international perspective, with contributions from India, Bulgaria, the United Kingdom and the United States. This title argues that for the right to information to be meaningful it must extend beyond nation-state governments to transnational corporations and multilateral organisations such as the World Bank. The right to access information is not only an important civil and political right. It is also a socio-economic right, enabling the full realisation of other socio-economic rights such as the right to welfare, housing or education.