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

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by Will Durant


  and Montaigne, 101, 413

  on origin of planets, 589

  and portrait (Hals), 486

  scientific researches, 587, 588, 641–42

  skepticism of, 572, 613

  universal-mechanism theory, 177, 593, 642–44

  De signatura return (Böhme), 553

  Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of (d. 1583), 29, 38

  Dessau, battle of (1626), 559

  De statu religionis et reipublicae Carolo V Caesare (Sleidanus), 547

  Detectio Mariae Reginae (Buchanan), 135

  Deventer, Netherlands, Dutch victory at, 457

  Devereux, Penelope, Lady Rich (1562?–1607), 72

  Devereux, Robert, see Essex, 2d Earl of

  Devereux, Walter, see Essex, 1st Earl of

  De vertiate (Herbert of Cherbury), 186–87

  Devil Is an Ass, The (Jonson), 151

  De vita, moribus, et doctrina Epicuri and De vita, moribus, et placitis Epicuri (Gassendi), 635

  Diablo cojuelo, El (Vélez de Guevara), 310

  Dialogues of Orasius Tabero (La Mothe), 614–15

  Diana enamorada (Montemayor), 67, 257, 417

  Diane de Poitiers, Duchess of Valentinois (1490–1566), 338

  Díaz de Bivar, Rodrigo (El Cid: 1040?–99), 422*

  Dickens, Charles (1812–70), 313

  dictionaries, first: English, 51

  French, 416

  Italian, 256

  South American Indian, 249

  Didactica magna (Comenius), 582

  Diderot, Denis (1713–84), 182, 414

  Dido, Queen of Carthage (Marlowe and Nash), 69, 85

  Diet, Electoral, see Holy Roman Empire, electors

  Diet, Imperial, see under Holy Roman Empire

  Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603–65), 167

  Digges, Leonard (d. 1571?), 165

  Digges, Thomas (c. 1545–95), 165

  Dijon, France, Huguenot massacre at, 352

  Dillingen, Jesuit church and college at, 549, 553

  Dini, Piero, Cardinal (fl. 1615), 606–7

  Dio Cassius (155–240?), 149

  Diodorus Siculus (1st cent. B.C.), 66

  Dioptrice (Kepler), 587

  Discouerie of Witchcraft, The (Scot), 163

  Discours de la méthode (Descartes), 175, 638–40, 644–46

  Discourse … for a New Passage to Cataia (Sir Humphrey Gilbert), 166

  Discourses (Machiavelli), 629

  Discours sur la servitude volontaire (La Boétie), 401

  Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, The (Raleigh), 39

  Distributio operis (Bacon), 173

  divine right of kings, see absolutism

  Dmitri I (the “False Dmitri”), Czar (1605–1606), 514–16

  Dmitri Ivanovich, Czarevich (1581–91), 513–14

  Dnieper and Dniester rivers, Turkish control of, 518

  Dobson, William (1610–46), 200, 476

  Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 81, 83–84, 267

  Doelen paintings, 485–86

  Dog and the Fever, The (Quevedo), 306

  Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri: 1581–1641), 234, 236–37

  domestic system, 47, 184–85

  Dominic, Saint (1170–1221), 239

  Dominicans, 238, 616

  in America, 251

  in China, 248–49

  and Galileo, 607f.

  and Molina, 246

  in Spain, 275

  and witchcraft persecution, 578

  Dominis, Marco Antonio de (1566–1624), 587

  Donato, Leonardo, Doge of Venice (r. 1606–1612), 228–29

  Don Giovanni (Mozart), 310

  Don Juan (Byron), 310

  Donne, John (1573–1631), 64, 71, 143, 154–156, 182, 482, 647

  Don Quixote (Cervantes), 267, 295, 300–304

  Don River, Tatar control of, 518

  Dordrecht, Netherlands, school of artists, 483; see also Dort Dorotea, La (Vega), 308

  Dorpat, Esthonia, capture of (1625), 500

  University of, 501, 503, 583*

  Dort (Dordrecht), Synod of (1618), 460

  Dortmund, Germany, Catholicism restored in, 561

  Dostoevski, Feodor (1821–81), 101

  Douai, Spanish Netherlands, 20, 454

  Douay Bible, 20

  Douglas, George (fl. 1568), 123

  Douglas of Lochleven, Sir William (d. 1606), 123

  Dowland, John (1563–1626), 60

  Downs, battle of the (1639), 289, 461

  Drake, Sir Francis (1545?–96), 31, 32, 34–37, 38, 58, 63

  drama: Caroline, 192–93

  classic, Dutch, 481

  classic, English, 147–49

  classic, French, 78, 99, 108, 109, 313, 398, 417, 420–26, 481, 645–646

  in education, 80, 245, 421

  Elizabethan (“romantic”), 13–16, 58, 59, 64, 66, 77–109, 147, 194, 422, 426

  Greek, 66, 78, 88, 100, 109, 254–55, 420, 422, 481

  historical, English, 89, 96, 99, 143

  Italian, 251, 257, 260, 313

  Jacobean, 50, 99

  Latin, 67

  musical, 273

  religious, 547–48

  Restoration, 108, 144

  Spanish, 288, 295, 299, 303–4, 507–15, 422

  Drayton, Michael (1563–1631), 76, 104, 107

  Dresden, Germany, 546, 552, 591

  dress: Elizabethan, 56–57

  French, 396

  Italian, 253

  Persian, 532, 535

  Spanish, 277

  Dreux, France, battle of (1562), 343

  “Drink to me only with thine eyes” (Jonson), 146, 151

  Drummond of Hawthornden, William (1585–1649), 9, 96*, 148

  drunkenness, 58, 480, 495–96, 532, 544, 548

  Drury, Elizabeth, 155

  Drury, Sir Robert, 155

  Dryden, John (1631–1700), 107–8

  Dublin, 30

  University of, 30, 583*

  Du Bourg, Anne (1521–59), 336–37

  Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster), 145–46

  Du Deffand, Marie, Marquise of (1697–1780), 414

  Dudley, Lady Mary, m. Sir Henry Sidney, 70

  Dudley, Robert, see Leicester, Earl of

  dueling, 276, 383, 394–95, 423

  Duisburg, University of, 590

  Dulwich College (London), 81

  Dumonstier, Daniel (1574–1646), 365

  Dunbar, Scotland, Mary Stuart at, 119, 122, 123

  Duns Scotus, John (c. 1265–1308), 67

  Duplessis-Mornay, Philippe (1549–1623), 359, 361, 363, 614

  Duquesnoy, François (1594–1643?), 463, 473

  Durham, England, in northern rebellion, 125

  Dutch arts, 266, 267, 482–94

  Dutch Empire, 478

  Dutch Guiana (Surinam), 478

  Dutch language, 436, 462, 480

  dykes, Netherlands, 447, 454, 477, 589

  Eastern Christian Church, 519

  East India Company, Dutch, 159, 477, 491

  East India Company, English, 49, 50, 159, 531

  East Indies: Dutch in, 477–78

  Dutch trade with, 466

  Portuguese in, 291

  East Prussia, anti-Calvinism in, 552

  Swedish conquest of, 500

  Eastward Ho! (Chapman, Jonson, Marston), 50, 149

  Eboli, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of (1540–1592), 283

  Eboli, Ruy Gómez, Prince of (d. 1573), 283

  Eclectic school, see under painting

  Edgehill, battle of (1642), 169, 213

  Edict of Amboise (1563), 343–44, 345

  Edict of Beaulieu, 358–59

  Edict of Grace (1629), 382

  Edict of January (1562), 341–42

  Edict of July (1561), 340

  Edict of Nantes (1598), 45, 367, 377–78, 417

  Edict of Restitution (1629), 561, 563, 566, 571

  Edinburgh, Scotland: Calvinism in, 112–13, 116

 
Holyrood Palace, 113, 114, 119, 120, 121, 134

  hostility to Mary, 123

  riots in, 134, 206

  Treaty of (1560), 112

  University of, 583*

  education: Bacon’s views on, 174, 176

  church control of, 495, 557, 583

  Comenius’ principles of, 582–83

  compulsory, 284, 583

  Denmark, 495

  drama used in, 80, 245, 421

  England, 17, 51–52, 59, 64, 66, 71, 80

  Germany, 383, 546, 583

  Jesuit, 244–45, 421, 422, 427 (see also Jesuits, schools and colleges)

  medical, 167, 591, 593

  musical, 59, 546

  Montaigne on, 399

  Poland, 509

  Russia, 515

  Spain, 284, 295

  state control of, 17, 583

  Sweden, 501, 503–4

  after 30

  Years’ War, 579

  United Provinces, 479

  of women, 71, 376; see also universities

  Edward II (Marlowe), 84–85, 89

  Edward III, King of England (1327–77), 4

  Edward VI, King of England (1547–53), 4, 6, 9, 48, 70, 110

  Effiat, Antoine Coiffler, Marquis of (1581–1632), 387

  Egerton, Sir Thomas (1540?–1617), 155

  Egmont, Anne of (Anna van Buren: d. 1558), 1st wife of William I of Orange, 437–38

  Egmont, Lamoral, Count of (1522–68), 280, 437, 439, 441, 443, 444–46

  Egypt, 518, 519

  Dutch trade with, 482

  “Eighty Years’ War,” 446–61

  Eine wahrhaftige neue Zeitung, 554

  Eisenhut, Anton (fl. 1588), 551

  Elbe River outlet, control of, 570

  election, doctrine of, see predestination

  electors, Imperial (Electoral Diet), see under Holy Roman Empire

  electricity, study of, 166

  Elements (Euclid), 601

  Eliot, Sir John (1592–1632), 201, 202–4

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1558–1603), 3–45, 48, 49, 51, 53, 59, 82, 94, 136, 263, 337, 338, 502

  absolutism of, 7, 45, 47, 133, 138, 139, 204, 220

  aides, 5–7, 8, 38, 45, 52

  and Alençon, 11, 17, 32, 55, 70, 354, 358

  appearance, 5, 38, 57

  and the Armada, 34–38

  at Cambridge and Oxford, 51, 503

  conspiracies to assassinate or dethrone, 6, 8, 33, 34, 81, 91, 114, 126–29, 240, 242, 280, 451, 629

  court of, 11–15

  death, 44

  education and learning, 4, 9, 12–13, 44, 51

  and English Renaissance, 13–15, 63, 79, 126

  and Essex, 40–43

  eulogized by contemporaries, 11, 44–45, 66, 618

  excommunication of, 19–20, 21, 31, 239

  final years, 43–45

  “Golden Speech” (1601), 43

  government and statesmanship, 5–9, 44–45

  Hatfield speech (1558), 4

  and Huguenots, 8, 18, 342, 354, 362

  illegitimacy question, 4, 110

  and Ireland, 28–30

  and Leicester, 9–12, 14, 23, 38, 457

  manners, 11–12

  and Mary Stuart, 4, 10, 12, 43–44, 110, 111, 112, 114, 118, 121, 123–25, 127, 129–30, 285

  monopolies to favorites, 7, 14, 43, 48, 50, 61

  and Netherland revolt, 8, 33, 73, 285, 445, 446–47, 457

  and parliamentary freedom, 26, 43

  parsimony, 12, 37, 73

  and Philip II of Spain, 7, 8, 10, 30–37, 280, 282, 285, 446–447, 457

  popularity, 7–8, 13

  portraits of, 61, 268

  and privateers, 31–34

  progresses of, 8, 14, 38

  and Raleigh, 38–40

  and Reformation, 13, 63, 102, 126

  religious views and policies, 4, 7, 8, 15–28, 33, 38, 43, 59, 87, 134, 141, 178, 284, 647

  and sciences, 164, 165

  and Shakespeare, 92

  and the Sidneys, 14, 55, 70–73

  and Spenser, 74

  splendor of, 7, 11, 14, 38, 56, 137

  succession problem, 10, 43–44, 110, 129

  Elizabeth of Austria, Queen of Charles IX of France (m. 1570), 346–47, 355, 393, 427, 430

  Clouet’s portrait of, 430

  Elizabeth of Bourbon (m. Philip IV of Spain), see Isabel of Bourbon

  Elizabeth of the Palatinate and Bohemia (Elizabeth Stuart: 1596–1662), wife of Elector Frederick V, King of Bohemia, 157, 213, 552, 557–58, 644

  Elizabeth, Princess Palatine (1618–80), 641, 644

  Elizabeth of Valois (1545–68), Queen of Spain as 3d wife of Philip II, 278, 280–81, 344, 455

  Elsass, 387

  Elsheimer, Adam (1578–1610), 550

  Elzevir, house of, 611

  Elzevir, Louis (1540?–1617), 579

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82), 414, 510

  Éminence Grise (Father Joseph: 1577–1638), 386

  Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (r. 1553–1580), 225, 226

  Empedocles (5th cent, B.C.), 624

  Empire, First (French, 1804–15), 420

  empiricism, 163, 175, 646

  Enchiridion (Epictetus), 66

  enclosures, 46, 178, 185, 204, 217

  Encyclopédie (Diderot, d’Alembcrt et al), 182

  Endymion (Keats), 76

  Endymion (Lyly), 81

  Enghien, Duke of, see Condé, Louis II of

  engineering, 164, 266, 457, 477, 589

  England, 3–221

  army, 5, see also New Model Army

  art, 61–63

  Civil Wars, see Civil Wars, England

  colonics, see Americas

  commerce and industry, 5, 7, 33, 46, 48–50, 159, 163, 166, 185, 219, 273, 294, 332, 519, 528–29, 543, 559–60

  Commonwealth (1649–1660), 197

  Dutch-English wars, 205, 478

  economic and social conditions, 5, 7, 45–50, 184–85

  French alliance (1624), 160, 558

  French-English war, 185, 202, 559

  in French Religious Wars, 342–43, 362

  Glorious Revolution (1688), 220

  literature, 65–109, 142–56, 172–83

  maritime supremacy, 37, 49, 285, 314, 559–60

  navy, 5, 31, 55–57, 205

  and Netherland revolt, 33, 73, 285, 446–47, 457

  northern rebellion, 125–26

  Parliament, see Parliament, English

  Poor Laws (1563–1601), 48

  population (1581), 46; (1640), 185

  regional, class, and religious groupings in, 15, 17, 185, 187, 212–13

  Restoration (1660), 107, 108, 188, 197, 214

  Spain’s invasion projects, 21–23, 34–38, 125, 126, 242, 285, 286, 291, 451, 457

  Spanish-English wars, 33–38, 157, 160, 201, 286, 293–94

  Spanish peace treaties, 286 (1604), 471 (1629)

  succession question, 4, 110, 129, 136

  treaty with Turks (“capitulations”), 524*; see also Anglican Church

  British Empire

  Privy Council, English

  Puritans

  English language, 51

  English Turkey Company, 49

  engraving, 429, 432, 472, 550

  Enlightenment, French, 182, 250, 414, 646

  Entragues, Henriette d’, Marquise of Verneuil (1579–1633), 369–70, 372

  Épernon, Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Duke of (1554–1642), 374

  epics: Hungarian, 547

  Italian, 258, 259, 260–261, 263–65

  Portuguese, 291–93

  Spanish, 304–5

  Epictetus (fl. C. A.D. 60), 66

  “Epicureans” (skeptics), 16, 614

  Epicurus (342?–270 B.C.), philosophy of, 101, 406, 616, 635–36

  episcopacy, Anglican: abolition and restoration of, 134, 214

  and bishops’ exclusion bill, 209

  and Grand Remonstrance, 211


  and Hampton Court Conference, 139–40

  vs. presbyteries of Kirk, 132–34, 187, 205–6

  (“Laud’s Canons”)

  Puritan opposition to, 24–26, 187, 189–90

  Epithalamium (Spenser), 75–77

  Epitome (Florus, ed. Salmasius), 582

  Epitome of the Copernican Astronomy (Kepler), 599

  Erasmus Desiderius (1466?–1536), 275, 404, 436, 459, 483, 614

  Erastus, Thomas (1524–83), 578

  Ercilla y Zuñiga, Alonso de (1533–94), 304–305

  Eric XIV, King of Sweden (1560–68), 497

  Erivan, Persia, 528, 534

  Errors in the Government of the Society of Jesus, The (Mariana), 297

  Escobedo, Juan de (d. 1578), 283

  Escorial Palace, 37, 62, 268, 279, 280, 285, 314, 317, 473

  library, 579

  Panteón, 279

  Essais (Montaigne), 404–15, 615, 632

  Essays (Francis Bacon), 68, 176

  Essays (Emerson), 414

  Essex, Lettice Knollys Devereux, Countess of, later Countess of Leicester (1541?–1634), 40

  Essex, Robert Devereux, 2d Earl of (1566–1601), 6, 13, 14, 38–43

  Azores expedition, 39, 41, 154, 283

  and Bacon, 40–42

  Cádiz expedition, 37, 41, 65, 154, 283

  execution of, 43

  in Ireland, 30, 41

  patron of actors and authors, 65, 74, 76

  and Raleigh, 39, 157

  rebellion and trial, 42, 94, 137, 141

  and Shakespeare, 42, 93, 94

  Essex, Robert Devereux, 3d Earl of (1591–1646), 213, 215

  Essex, Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of (1541?–1576), 29, 72

  Established Church, see Anglican Church

  Este, house of, 225

  Este, Alfonso II d’, Duke of Ferrara (r. 1559–1597), 232, 259, 261–63, 265

  Este, Francesco II d’, 324

  Este, Isabella d’ (1474–1539), 227

  Este, Leonora d’, 259–60

  Este, Lucrezia d’, 259–60, 261–63

  Este, Luigi, Cardinal d’ (fl. 1570), 259–60, 262

  Esthonia, 500, 570

  Estienne, Henri II (1528?–98), 579

  Estienne, Robert III (1560–1630), 579

  Estissac, Baron of, 411

  Estrées, Gabrielle d’ (1573–99), 369, 370, 394

  Estrella de Sevilla, La (Vega), 309

  etchings, 429, 492

  Ethics (Aristotle), 66

  Ethics (Spinoza), 646

  Eton College, 51, 63, 66

  Eucharist, see Communion

  Euclid (fl. 300 B.C.), 165, 601, 639

  Eudes, Saint John (1601–80), 376

  Euphrates River, 527

  Euphues, or The Anatomy of Wit (Lyly), 67–69, 72

  euphuism, 306

  Euridice (Peri), 254, 255

  Euripides (5th cent, B.C.), 422

  Evelyn, John (1620–1706), 108, 226, 235, 427, 579

  Every Man in His Humour (Jonson), 89, 147

 

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