The chorus of history. Literary-historical relations in Renaissance Britain 1485-1558

Hardcover linnen, dj, in-8, 329 pp., illustrations (More, Erasmus by Holbein, Narrenschiff/Ship of fools of Brant (1499), Henry VIII by Joos van Cleve, Cranmer, Wolsey, ...), bibliography, index. "The most significant political event of the sixteenth century was the dissolution of the monastic houses and all intellectual activity preceding the 1530s was leading, in most instances unintentionally, to a break with Catholic doctrine and to the encouragement of philosophical and scientific speculation of a kind which the Roman church would not have sanctioned." (p. 296)