Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Contributors. List of Illustrations. Part 1: 1. Introduction: Reading Renaissance Ethics Part 2: The Ethics of Renaissance Forms 2. Gender, Justice and the Gods in The Faerie Queene, Book 5 3. The Ethics of Posing: Visual Epideixis in Some 17th Century Dutch Group Portraits 4. Textual Ethics: Reading Transference and Translation: Milton and Tragedy 5. Aesthetics as Critique in Samson Agonistes Part 3: Historicizing Renaissance Ethics 6. The Ethics of Renaissance Bible Translation 7. Eating Montaigne 8. Marvell’s 'Scaevola Scoto-Brittannus' and the Ethics of Political Violence Part 4: Philosophy and Renaissance Ethics 9. The Ethics of Inspiration 10. Shakespeare Against Morality 11. The Skeptical Ethics of John Donne: The Case of Ignatius his Conclave 12. Winning the Initiative Part 5: Assessments 13. Ethics or Politics? An Exchange Passing through the Areopagitica 14. Reading Reading Renaissance Ethics: 'with modesty enough'