The Story of Civilization: Volume VII: The Age of Reason Begins

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by Will Durant


  Allerheim, battle of (1645), 567

  Alleyn, Edward (1566–1626), 81

  Allori, Alessandro (1535–1607), 227

  Allori, Cristofano (1577–1621), 227

  All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare), 92

  Almagest (Ptolemy), 595

  Alpini, Prospero (1553–1617), 590

  Alsace, 542*, 566, 568, 570

  Alsace–Lorraine, 387

  Altmark, Peace of (1629), 508

  Alumbrados, 275

  Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of (1508–73), 282, 344, 453, 543

  in Netherlands, 21, 33, 46, 125, 126, 239, 348, 352, 444–49, 462, 524, 539

  in Portugal, 290–91, 449

  Alvarez de Toledo, Federigo (fl. 1573), 448–49

  Amadigi di Gaula (Bernardo Tasso), 259

  Amadis da Gaula (Lobeira), 301

  Amadis de Gaula (Span, version), 67

  Amati, Andrea (1530?–1611?), 254

  Amboise, France, Edict of, 343–44, 345

  Tumult of, 336–37

  Americas: Dutch in, 478

  English in, 14, 28, 37, 39, 49, 140, 158, 187, 188*, 204

  exploration of, 57, 157–58, 166, 590

  gold and silver from, 48, 274, 286, 314, 333, 544

  missionaries in, 249–51

  Portuguese in, 274, 291

  Spanish in, 31–34, 158, 249–51, 274, 291, 295, 314, 400, 583, 590

  Amiens, France, Imperial advance to, 387

  Aminta (Tasso), 67, 257, 260

  Ammanati, Bartolommeo (1511–92), 227

  Amoretti (Spenser), 75

  Amsterdam, 28, 460, 462, 478, 638

  architecture, 483

  artists, 483, 487–93

  Bank of, 228, 478

  Calvinists in, 443, 452–53

  Gazette, 480

  University of, 583*

  Amyot, Jacques (1513–93), 66, 403

  Anabaptists, 18, 186, 215, 436, 440, 442, 481, 510, 551

  Anales de la Corona de Aragón (Zurita), 297

  anatomy, 591–92, 642

  Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 152–54

  “Anatomy of the World, An” (Donne), 155

  Ancona, Italy, 235, 238*, 240, 522

  Andreini, Isabella (1562–1604), 257

  Angermannus, Archbishop, 498

  Angers, France, massacre at, 352

  Anglican Church, 59, 66, 576, 626

  and Apostolic Succession, 187, 209

  Charles I’s adherence to, 201, 209, 211, 219

  control of education, 51, 583

  Convocation, 26, 27, 139, 140

  Elizabethan settlement, 6, 17–19, 24, 43, 647

  episcopacy abolished, 214

  Establishment (state religion), 187, 192

  Hampton Court Conference, 139–40

  Latitudinarians, 460

  Laud’s innovations, 188–89

  Anhalt, 552

  Anjou, Dukes of, see Alençon, Duke of

  Henry III, King of France

  Anjou, province, Huguenots in, 335

  Anna, wife of Augustus I of Saxony (m. 1584), 545

  Annales (Camden), 9, 66

  Annales ecclesiastici (Baronius), 256

  Annales Veteris Testamenti (Ussher), 187

  Anne of Austria (d. 1580), Queen of Spain as 4th wife of Philip II, 281, 285

  Anne of Austria (1601–66), Queen of Louis XIII of France (1615–43), Regent of France (1643–61), 374, 378, 387–89, 392, 429, 575

  Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), Queen of James I of England, 60, 62, 131, 157

  Anne of Saxony (d. 1577), 2d wife of William I of Orange, 438, 466

  Ansbach–Bayreuth, Margraviate of, 549

  Anselm, Saint (1033–1109), 640

  anti–Catholic laws, England, see under Catholics, English

  Antinomians, 186

  Antioch, 518, 519

  Anti–Trinitarians, 510

  Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (138–61), 173.

  Antonius, Marcus (Mark Antony: 83–30 B.C.), 94, 95, 100, 523*

  Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 95, 98

  Antrim, Ireland, 29

  Antwerp, Netherlands, 7, 33

  art center, 463–465, 467

  cathedral, 462, 467, 469

  French Fury in, 456

  religious conflict in, 441–43, 453

  sack of (1576), 451

  St. Paul’s, 269

  siege and fall of (1584–85), 457, 462, 478

  Apollo Club, 151

  “Apologie de Raimond Sebond” (Montaigne), 407, 639*

  Apostles’ Creed, 188

  Apostolic Succession, claimed by Anglican bishops, 187, 209

  Appian (2d cent.), 66

  Aquaviva, Claudio (1543?–1615), 244–46, 629

  Aquileia, province of, 228

  Arabia, 291, 518, 522

  Aragon, 283

  Araucana, La (Ercilla y Zuñiga), 305

  Arcadia (Sannazaro), 72, 417

  Arcadia (Sidney), 71–72, 257, 417

  Arcadia (Vega), 308

  Archangel, Dutch at, 477

  Archimedes (287?–212 B.C.), 603, 639

  architecture: baroque, 227, 266–73, 315, 427, 469, 482, 509, 549

  church, 61, 279, 314, 426–427, 482, 512

  civic, 61, 427, 463, 482–83, 549

  classic, 61, 62, 227, 265–66, 426–27, 482

  domestic, 55–56, 62–63, 428

  Dutch, 482–84

  England, 61–63

  Flemish, 463

  France, 358, 426–28;

  Germany, 549–50

  Gothic, 61, 62, 265–66, 315, 426

  India, 534

  Italy, 226, 227, 230–31, 236, 265–67, 269–73, 315

  Ottoman, 521

  Palladian, 62, 314

  Persian, 528, 529–30, 534

  Poland, 509

  Renaissance, 61, 62–63, 265–67, 279, 426–27, 428, 482–83, 549

  Russia, 512

  Spain, 274, 279, 295, 313, 314

  Tudor, 61–62

  Arctic, exploration of, 166, 477

  Arden, Mary (d. 1608), 87

  Arden of Faversham, 81

  Areopagus, literary club, 68

  Aretino, Pietro (1492–155), 619

  Arfe, Juan de (1523–1603), 315

  Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of (1530–73), 120, 122

  Arianna (Monteverdi), 255, 256

  Ariosto, Lodovico (1474–1533), 75, 165, 259, 263, 273

  Orlando Furioso, 67, 300

  Aristarchus, sive De arte grammatica (Lipsius), 580

  Aristogeiton (d. 514 B.C.), 628

  Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), 71, 84, 96, 404, 581, 616

  De anima, 617

  Ethics, 66

  logic of, 173–75, 636

  Organon, 173

  philosophy of, 101, 163, 177, 246, 507, 601, 605, 620, 624, 625, 632, 635, 638

  Poetics, 77

  Politics, 66;

  science of, 586, 601–2

  “unities” of, 77, 148, 420

  Armada, Spanish, 6, 23, 34–37, 166, 242, 280, 287, 299, 308

  effect of defeat of, 276, 285, 461

  Armagh, Ireland, battle of, 30

  Armenia, 518, 519

  Arminians, 190, 203, 460, 632

  Arminius, Jacobus (1560–1609), 459

  Armstrong, Andrew (fl. 1563), 117

  Arndt, Johann (1555–1621), 553

  Arques, battle of (1589), 363

  Arras, capture of (1640), 387

  League of, 454

  Ars magna lucis et umbrae (Kircher), 591

  Arte de la pintura (Pacheco), 316

  Artois, province of, 347, 436, 446, 454

  Artusi, Giovanni (1550?–1613), 255

  Arundel, Thomas Howard, 2d Earl of (1585?– 1646), 180, 471, 474

  Aschaffenburg Castle, 549

  Ascham, Roger (1515–68), 4, 15–16, 52, 53*, 63, 66

  Aselli, Gasparo (1581–1625), 591–92

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p; Asia, European trade with, 49, 228

  Moslems in, 518–19

  Assembly of Notables (France, 1560), 337

  Assisi, Italy, 238*

  Astrée (d’Urfé), 416–17

  astrology, 97, 162, 164, 539, 575–76, 596, 597, 600, 631

  Astronomía nova de motibus stellae Martil (Kepler), 598

  astronomy, 16, 64

  advances in, 163–66, 173, 180–81, 539, 585, 5 94–600, 605–6, 642

  and the Bible, 606, 614

  Copernican, 165, 407, 572, 595–600, 603–12, 618, 620, 623, 635

  Ptolemaic 97, 597, 605, 610

  Astrophel (Spenser), 74

  As You Like It (Shakespeare), 86, 89, 92, 99, 100

  atheism, 15–16, 39, 52, 82, 134, 177, 186, 409, 614, 615, 624, 632, 644

  Athens, 273, 518

  Parthenon, 265

  Atlantic nations, ascendancy of, 33–34, 225, 226, 543

  Atlas (Mercator), 590

  atomism, 616, 635, 636

  Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa d’ (1552–1630), 363

  Aubrey, John (1626–97), 12*, 53*, 70, 72, 105, 139*, 144, 169, 187, 197, 643

  Audenaarde, Calvinist Fury in, 443

  Augsburg, 542*, 549, 550, 561, 579

  Confession, 498–99, 556

  Diet of, 551

  principle, 551, 561

  Augustine, Saint (354–430), 246, 404, 405, 613, 639*

  Augustinians, 305

  Augustus, Roman emperor (27 B.C.–A.D. 14), 55, 523*

  Augustus I, Elector of Saxony (r. 1553–86), 347, 545, 578

  Aumale, Claude de Lorraine, Duke of (1526–73), 349–50

  Australia, discovery of, 589

  Austria, 538, 540–41

  Diet of, 541

  Polish alliance, 501

  population decline, 567

  in 30 Years’ War, 243, 541, 557

  and Turks, 32, 371, 525

  Westphalia Peace terms, 571, 647

  Anstro–Hungarian Empire, 570

  autos sagramentales, 308, 311

  Avellaneda (fl. 1614), 303, 305

  Averroës (1126–98), 616

  Avicebrón (Ibn Gabirol: 1021–58), 616

  Avicenna (Abu ‘Ali al–Husein ibn Sina: 980–1037), 616

  Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, Augsburg, 579

  Aviz dynasty, 290

  Axel, Netherlands, capture of (1586), 73

  Azerbaijan, retaken by Persia, 528

  Azores, 34, 37, 39, 41, 154, 299, 308

  Aztecs, art of, 409

  Babington, Anthony (1561–86), 128

  Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750), 254, 434, 480, 546

  Bacon, Francis (1561–1626), 6, 12–13, 37, 38, 40–42, 44, 49, 56, 137, 169–83, 407

  The Advancement of Learning, 172–74

  and Coke, 41– 42, 138

  corruption as judge, impeachment, 54, 171

  death, 180

  on education, 174, 176, 245

  Essays, 67, 176

  and Essex, 40–42

  favored by James I, 136, 170–71

  The Great Renewal, 172–76

  on inductive logic, 168, 173–76, 180–81, 183

  The New Atlantis, 176, 179, 180, 182

  Novum Organum, 173, 174

  philosophy of, 96, 101, 174–83, 413, 605, 625, 645

  and science, 97, 171–76, 180–83, 595, 631, 641, 647

  Bacon, Sir Nicholas (1509–79), 6–7, 40–42

  Bacon, Roger (1214?–94), 173, 181

  Baden, 542*

  Baffin, William (1584–1622), 166

  Baghdad, 518, 526, 527, 528

  Balen, Hendrik van (1575–1632), 473

  Balfour, Sir James (d. 1583), 120

  Balkans, 518, 519

  ballads, 59, 77, 133, 304

  Ballard, John (d. 1586), 128

  ballet, 14, 254, 396

  ballistics, 457

  Baltasar Carlos, Don (1629–46), 290, 323, 328

  Balthazar de Beaujoyeux (Baltazarini: fl. 1555), 397

  Baltic Sea, control of, 495, 500, 501, 508, 543, 559, 570

  Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron (1580?– 1632), 187

  Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850), 100

  Balzac, Jean Louis Guez, Seigneur de (1597?–1654), 397, 417, 419, 503

  Bamberg, 542*

  University of, 583*

  Bandar Abbas, Persia, 531

  Bandello, Matteo (1480–1562), 67, 91

  bandits, Italian, 240–41, 252, 275

  Banér, Johan (1596–1641), 565, 566

  bankruptcies, 543, 568

  Baptists, 186, 190

  Barberini, house of, 238

  Barberini, Francesco, Cardinal (1597–1679), 432

  Barberini, Maffeo, see Urban VIII

  Bardi, Giovanni (1534?–1612?), 255

  Barents, Willem (d. 1597), 477

  Barnes, Richard, 82

  Barnfield, Richard (1574–1627), 104

  Barnham, Alice, m. (1606) Francis Bacon, 170

  barometer, invention of, 584, 585, 647

  Baronius, Caesar, Cardinal (1538–1607), 256

  baroque, 265–73

  architecture, 227, 266–73, 315, 427, 469, 482, 509, 549

  furniture, 429

  literature, 98, 267

  music, 256

  painting, 266–71, 434, 473

  sculpture, 266, 271–73, 429

  Barrière, Pierre (d. 1594), 364

  Barrow, Henry (d. 1593), 26

  Bartholomew Fair, 49

  Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 150

  Basel, Switzerland, 387, 550, 591, 592

  University of, 593

  Basilikon Doron (James VI of Scotland), 135

  Basmanov, Patriarch (fl. 1605), 515

  Bassi, Martino (fl. 1570), 226

  Bassompierre, François de, Marshal (1579–1646), 396, 397

  Batavia (Jakarta), Java, 478

  Bath, England, 55, 593

  in Civil Wars, 216

  Báthory, Stephen, King of Poland (1575–86), 507, 509, 510

  Bauhin, Gaspard (1560–1624), 590–91

  Bautista del Mazo, Juan (1612?–67), 327

  Bautista de Toledo, Juan (d. 1567), 279

  Bavaria, 542*, 543, 558

  Catholic Reformation in, 553, 647

  Privy Council, witchcraft persecution, 578

  in 30 Years’ War, 565, 567, 569

  Westphalia Peace terms, 570

  Bayle, Pierre (1647–1706), 413–14, 613, 645

  Bayonne, France: Spanish–French parley at, 344, 429

  Bayreuth, Germany, 542*, 568

  Béam, province of, 336, 346, 356–57, 379

  Beaton, David, Cardinal (1494–1546), 135

  Beaulieu, Edict of (1576), 358–59

  Beaumont, Francis (1584–1616), 104, 143–45

  Beauvais, France, religious riots, 340

  Beethoven, Ludwig von (1770–1827), 434

  Beggars (Gueux), 442–44

  of the Sea, 447–48, 452, 457

  Wild, 447

  Belgium, formation of, 454

  Bellarmine, Robert, Cardinal (1542–1621), 229, 247, 257, 553, 605–8, 623, 627

  Belleforest, François de (1530–83), 93

  Bellegarde, Roger II (1562–1646), 369

  Bembo, Pietro, Cardinal (1470–1547), 297, 393.

  Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), 183

  Bentivoglio, Guido, Cardinal (1579–1644), 256, 258, 474

  Berbers, 284

  Berg, Count van den (fl. 1568), 445

  Bergheon, Marquis of (fl. 1566), 442

  Bergson, Henri (1859–1941), 177

  Berkeley, George (1685–1753), 182, 646

  Berlin, 542*

  Bermuda, settling of, 158

  Bern, Switzerland, witchcraft persecution, 577

  Bernhard, Duke of Saxe–Weimar (r. 1604– 1639), 387, 565–66, 583

  Berni, Francesco (1497–1536), 619

  Bernier, François (1625–88), 636

  Bern
ini, Giovanni Lorenzo (1598–1680), 225, 238, 256, 270–75, 322, 429, 472

  Bertrand le Blas, 440

  Bérulle, Pierre de (1575–1629), 375, 638

  Berwick upon Tweed, truce of (1639), 206

  Betterton, Thomas (1635?–1710), 108

  Beyram Pasha, Vizier, 521

  Bèze, Théodore de (1519–1608), 24, 133, 341– 343, 540, 626

  Bible: and astronomy, 606, 614

  Bohemian Brethren translation, 547

  Douay, 20

  Froschauer editions, 579

  King James (Authorized) version, 20, 143, 152, 161, 187, 241

  scholarship and criticism, 580, 613

  Vulgate, 20, 241

  Bienenkorb des heiligen römischen Immenschwarms (Fischart), 548

  Bihzad, Kamal al–Din (c. 1440–c. 1523), 534

  Binsfeld, Peter, Bishop (fl. 1589), 578–79

  biology, 167, 173, 177, 584–85, 587, 590, 646

  Birague, René de (1506–83), 428

  Biron, Charles de Gontaut, Duke of (1562– 1602), 365

  bishoprics, multiplication of in Netherlands, 439

  bishops’ exclusion bill (England, 1642), 208; see also episcopacy

  Bishops’ Wars, 206–7

  Bismarck, Otto von, Prince (1815–98), 560, 570

  Black, David (fl. 1596), 134

  Black Sea, Turkish control of, 512, 518

  Blackfriars theater, 79, 105, 149, 192

  Blackwater, Ireland, battle of (1598), 30

  Blake, William (1757–1827), 99

  Blois, France: château, 428

  French government at, 347–48, 360–61, 413

  Huguenot massacre, 352

  Marie de Médicis at, 379, 380

  Blomberg, Barbara (fl. 1520), 282

  blood: circulation of, 167–69, 181, 591–97, 642

  transfusion, start of, 588, 594

  bloodletting, 167, 378, 593, 636

  “Bloody Mary,” see Mary I, Queen of England

  Blount, Charles, see Mountjoy, Baron

  blue laws, 59, 191

  Blue Penitents, 358

  Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75), 67, 481

  Bocskay, Stephen, Prince of Transylvania (r. 1604–6), 541

  Bodin, Jean (1530–96), 67, 579, 595, 629–32

  Bodleian Library, see under Oxford University

  Bodley, Sir Thomas (1545–1613), 65

  Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (480?–524?), 12

  Bohemia, 96, 538, 540, 542

  Diet of, 542, 556–557

  Directory, 556

  population decrease, 567

  restoration of Catholicism, 557–58, 571, 647

  in 30 Years’ War, 159, 552, 556–59, 562, 564, 565, 567

  Westphalia Peace terms, 570

  Bohemian or Moravian Brethren (Unitas Fratrum), 510, 511, 542, 547, 558, 582

  Böhme, Jakob (1575–1624), 553

  Boiardo, Matteo Maria (1430–94), 67

  Boileau–Despréaux, Nicolas (1636–1711), 108, 398, 419, 646

  Boislambert, Esther Ymbert de, 369

  Boleyn, Anne (1507–36), 4

  Bolland, Jean de (1506–1665), 417

 

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