[lbo-talk] RE: jobs for medievalists

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Tue Mar 30 20:40:28 PST 2004


Yes, Hiram Haydn, The Counter-Renaissance, from 1950 -- but the academic orthodoxy remained (and remains) the Burckhardtian view that the Renaissance was "the discovery of the world and of man" -- a resistant bit of liberal mythology, still a staple of Western Civilization courses.

Scholars informed by Marxist discussions surely should have noticed that the cultural currents subsumed under the term "Renaissance" were principally a reaction to the crises precipitated by the collapse, in the 14th century, of the feudal mode of production. --CGE

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, joanna bujes wrote:


> Thank them also for punctuation, the spaces between words, table of
> contents, chapters, musical notation, and the preservation of
> classical texts. ...but also, in the high middle ages, great
> imaginative flights (the dream vision poems), a passion for vernacular
> culture, a mystical-egalitarian vision that sought to bring heaven to
> earth, the last age that loved and worshipped women...all in all, not
> so bad. All in all, the Renaissance was a counter-revolution...duly
> documented/described in a book I can't remember the title of..."the
> Counter-Renaissance"????? By Hiram something...Hayden? (I last touched
> this twenty years ago.)



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list