Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain : John of the Cross, Francisco de Aldana, Luis de Leon (Paperback)

Introduction by Stephen Boyd  Part I. Humanism and Religion  1.‘Humanism and religion in the Omelias of Jorge de Montemayor’  2. ‘Meditation and contemplation: monastic spirituality in early sixteenth-century Spain’  3. ‘The religious writings of Juan de Valdes (c. 1509?1541)’  Part II. John of the Cross  4. ‘St John of the Cross and Carmel’  5. ‘The text and the context of Que bien se yo la fonte / que mana y corre'  6. ‘John of the Cross and the Bible’  7. ‘Psalm 136 and the romance "Encima de las Corrientes"’  8. ‘The Figure of Aminadab in the Writings of St John of the Cross’  9.‘The Psalter in Golden Age Spain: St John of the Cross and Psalm 62:2’  10. ‘San Juan de la Cruz and the Fathers of the Church: Song 1:3 in the Cantico espiritual’  11. ‘Latin and Vernacular in the Cantico espiritual of St John of the Cross’  12. ‘The exegesis of the Song of Songs in the Cantico espiritual’  13. ‘Human and divine love in the Cantico spiritual of Saint John of the Cross’  14. ‘Chiasmus and the Art of Memory in the Cantico espiritual’  Part III. Francisco de Aldana  15. ‘Friendship and contemplation in the Carta para Arias Montano’  16. The Carta para Arias Montano: a parallel text  17. ‘The Christian Neoplatonism of Francisco de Aldana in the Carta para Arias Montano’  Part IV. Luis de Leon  18. Luis de Leon and the Hebrew Truth of Scripture: the Affair of the Biblia de Vatablo’  19. ‘The Ode to Francisco Salinas’  20. ‘The image of the Garden in La vida retirada’  21. ‘Luis de Leon and the Ascension of Christ’  22. ‘The movement of thought and feeling in the ode to Juan de Grial’  23. ‘Luis de Leon and Galicia: a close reading of Virtud, hija del cielo’  24. ‘The Poetic Voice of Luis de Leon in No siempre es poderosa’  25. ‘Luis de Leon and the Moriscos: a close reading of Ode XXII (La cana y alta cumbre)’