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Headley, John Miles was born on October 23, 1929 in New York City. Son of Peter Sanford Ross and Beatrice Sontag (Miles) Headley.
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Reflecting the work of a 1984 international conference at the Folger Shakespeare Library, this collective study of Carlo Borromeo goes beyond the image of the saint to reveal a commanding figure who sought to extend his Milanese experience of provincial reform to Rome, to the Curia, and to the Catholic world at large. Illustrated.
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This study examines a significant development within late medieval and early modern European government, set in the context of the tense relations between the young Emperor Charles V and his ageing chancellor Mercurino de Gattrina. It focuses upon an important transformation in the administrative reorganisation of European monarchies: the shift in the political centre of gravity from the medieval institution of the chancellery as the secretariat for all government business and authentication to a small group of secretaries, the minister of a later age, acting directly in collaboration with the prince. In the collision between the traditional judicial and administrative pre-eminence of the late medieval chancellor and the new secretaries as expediters of the Renaissance prince's will. Charles gave his support to the latter, thus associating himself with the previous work of Ferdinand the Catholic. Against the background of this struggle with the state secretaries the imperial chancellery is analysing in its relations to the individual chancelleries of Charles V's disparate lands.
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This volume, deriving from a broadly conceived interest in polity, seeks to emphasize the aspirations of church or an imperial system, to a more comprehensive, universal order. The period 1520-1640 affords notable examples in the context of renascence and reform, as the emerging territorial states or national monarchies, especially Spain, adopted some of the attributes traditionally associated with the Holy Roman Emperor. The articles presented here focus on the thought of leading individuals who contended with the universalizing theme in some form, whether as churchmen or statesmen - More, Luther, Gattinara, San Carlo Borromeo and Tommas Campanella - and concludes with Europe’s global expansion, both in thought and deed.
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Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fascinating, if hitherto inaccessible, intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges across many of the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political concerns of that tumultuous era. John Headley uses Campanella's life and works to open a window into this complex period. He not only explicates the frequently contradictory texts of a prolific author but also situates Campanella's writings amidst the larger currents of European thought. For all its obscurely magical and astrological intricacies, Campanella's entire intellectual endeavor expresses an effort to impose a distinctive order and direction upon the major issues and forces of the age different from that which was shortly to prevail with the new Galilean science and the Leviathan state. In the process of identifying and engaging these issues and imparting in some instances something of his own, he managed to mobilize and deploy many of the salient principles of late medieval and Renaissance culture, often cast in a curiously modern hue and aligned with the new forces of the age. Indeed, modern and antique, new and old juxtapose violently in the person of this reformer who combines an encyclopedic comprehensiveness of intellect with an appalling intensity of will. He is a man who strove to destabilize the regnant forces of what he identified as tyranny, sophistry, and hypocrisy and to shake the world into a new order. In this book, Headley invites readers to look anew at this mercurial figure and at the turbulent times in which he lived.
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Headley, John Miles was born on October 23, 1929 in New York City. Son of Peter Sanford Ross and Beatrice Sontag (Miles) Headley.
Bachelor summa cum laude in history, Princeton University, 1951; Master of Arts in History, Yale University, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy in History, Yale University, 1960.
Teacher, Oakwood School, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1955-1956; instructor history, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1959-1961; instructor, then assistant professor, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1962-1964; assistant professor of history, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1964-1966; associate professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1966-1969; professor of history, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1969. Lecturer in field.
(Reflecting the work of a 1984 international conference at...)
(This study examines a significant development within late...)
(This volume, deriving from a broadly conceived interest i...)
( Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fasci...)
With Signal Corps United States Army, 1953-1955. Fellow Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (chairman 1967), American Society for Reformation Research (member council 1970, chairman nominating committee 1973, president 1978-1980), Renaissance Society of America (advisory council 1972), Phi Beta Kappa.