Sublime

Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce,

Thomas Walsingham, a monk in St. Albans Abbey who witnessed the destruction of the abbey’s archive firsthand, described how the rebels “set fire to all court rolls and muniments, so that after they had got rid of these records of their ancient service their lords would not be able to claim any right at all against them at some future time.”[48]

… it is all the hurt that evil men can do to noble women and princes, to spread abroad lies and dishonourable tales of them, and that we of all princes that be women are subject to be slandered wrongfully of them that be our adversaries, other hurt they cannot do to us. Catherine de’ Medici, 1572

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Dans ses écrits, Rucellai forge le terme « équilibre des pouvoirs » pour décrire les conflits et les revirements d’alliances constants entre Florence, Milan et d’autres cités-États italiennes. Ces jeux politiques impliquent une horde de papes, de rois français et d’empereurs romains germaniques. La concurrence entre les dirigeants est aussi

for it is a return to the past by men ignorant of the past, like the subconscious action of some man who has lost his memory.

Amongst the Bogomils whose names have survived are Jeremiah (thought by some to be the pseudonym of Bogomil himself), who wrote the widely circulated tract The Legend of the Cross,

St Bonaventure (c.1217–74), for instance, governor-general of the order from 1257 to 1274, was a university man and speculative theologian of enormous erudition who succeeded grandly in combining the mystical elations of Franciscan piety with the rational disciplines of academic philosophy.

It is important to note that the term was not applied to the period bridging the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era until the nineteenth cen tury.