Sublime

When traditional mythologies and scriptures laid down general laws, these were presented in narrative rather than mathematical form.

The reformation of Christianity

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.

Its preachers claimed that these ancient writings were not art, the imaginative expression of enduring truths about the human condition. They were reports of events that happened precisely as they were described,

One of the hallmarks of this reality is that the Bible as a sacred text lay at the heart of the sixteenth-century church reforms for both sides of the Reformation debate. Further, history as an authoritative source of wisdom plays a significant role for both Catholics and Protestants in the sixteenth century. The Reformers themselves constantly mad