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Writing Cultural History in Early Modern Europe: Christophe Milieu and his Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Donald R. Kelley
Donald R. Kelley*
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Abstract

Christophe Milieu's De Scribenda Vniversitatis rervm historia libri qvinqve (Basel, 1551) interprets the "universe of things" (universitas return) within an evolutionary and historical framework consisting of five connected and progressive "grades" (gradus) of existence accessible to human understanding: nature (natura), the world of God's creation and man's animal aspect; prudence (prudentia), including the arts of survival; government (principatus), the stage of civil society and political history; wisdom (sapientia), equivalent to civilization and including the higher sciences and philosophy; and literature (litetatura), in which knowledge of the preceding phases of "progress" (progressio) is expressed in writing. Milieu's "narrative" constitutes a pioneering and comprehensive history of western culture.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , Summer 1999 , pp. 342 - 365
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1999

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