Theological Origins of Modernity

334n45, 335n67; Enlightenment and,
257; Hermeticism and, 83, 210, 333n32,
334n42; Hobbes and, 215–16, 221, 223,
229, 234, 235, 263, 342n21; modernity
and, 5, 8, 19; nature and, 37, 38–39, 40,
262; New Atlantis, 39, 210, 215, 334n42;
Petrarch and, 311n145
Baillet, Adrien, 170, 175, 178, 334n39, 335n55
Bainton, Roland H., 126, 321n28, 324n115
Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de, 183, 335n65
Baron, Hans, 73–74, 297n11, 306n49,
306n56, 309n97, 313n12
Basil, 78
Bates, B. W., 297n12
Battle of the Books. See quarrel of ancients
and moderns
Baudrillard, Jean, 359n47
Becker, Marvin, 313n19
becoming, 35–37
Beeckman, Isaac, 170, 171, 174–75, 176, 177,
178, 183, 223, 332nn19–20, 333n25
being: Averroism and, 50; Heidegger on,
13, 16, 360n47; Luther’s ontology and,
113, 127, 321n40; metaphysics and, 16;
modernity and, 4, 14, 18, 19; Plato and,
36. See also individualism, ontological
Beiser, Frederick C., 355n15
Bentley, Richard, 6
Berger, Peter, 356n26
Berlin Wall, fall of, ix, 9–10, 285
Berman, Marshall, 298n19
Bernard of Clairvaux, 110, 115, 143, 321n40
Bernhard of Chartres, 3–4
Bérulle, Pierre de, 182–83, 335n56
Bessarion, John, 81, 82
Beyssade, Jean Marie, 339n135
Beza, Th eodore, 211, 353n156
Biel, Gabriel, 27; Descartes and, 174;
devotio moderna and, 318n78, 320n16;
Erasmus and, 328n61; human freedom
and, 103; Luther and, 105, 113, 131, 144,
327n35; Pelagianism and, 28, 143
Bielfeldt, Dennis, 323n86
Bin Laden, Osama, 293
Biondo, Flavio, 78–79, 297n10
Bizer, Ernst, 322n69
Black Death: impact on lifespan, 301n28;
nominalist vision and, 15, 29; Petrarch’s
index 365
loss of friends in, 46, 47–48; resurgent
Islam and, 315n39
Blumenberg, Hans, xi, 11–12, 156, 226,
296n6, 298n25, 299n6, 300n15, 300n17,
300n19, 302n34, 329n88, 356n28, 357n34
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 94, 102, 301n30,
304n23, 311n1
Boccolini, Traiano, 334n42
Boehner, Philotheus, 300n14
Boethius, 20
Boileau, Nicholas, 5
Bonaventure, 27, 143, 174, 203, 314n25,
339n134
Bostrengi, Daniela, 352n146
Bousma, O. K., 337n90
Bouwsma, William J., 307n78, 308n79,
308n85, 308n90, 311n169, 314n26
Boyle, Marjorie O’Rourke, 303n8, 326n24,
327n45, 327nn47–48, 328n68, 328n71,
328n73, 329n74, 329n86
Braaten, Carl E., 323n86
Bracciolini, Francesco, 73, 74
Bradwardine, Th omas, 27, 116, 131, 345n78
Bramhall, John, 220, 221, 228, 247, 343n45,
353n157
Braun, G., 328n66
Brecht, Martin, 319n87, 325n6, 326n14,
326nn19–20
Breger, Claudia, 360n47
Brethren of the Common Life, 93, 94,
102, 103
Brient, Elizabeth, 346n85
Brown, Keith C., 349n127, 353n153
Brown, Stephen, 299n6, 352n142
Bruce, Steve, 356n26
Bruni, Leonardo, 73, 78–79, 297n10
Bruno, Giordano, 83, 175, 179, 181, 317n63,
341n18
Burckhardt, Jacob, 72, 297n14, 313n12
Buridan, John, 27
Burnet, Th omas, 6
Burnett, Charles, 361n3
Burroughs, Charles, 331n154
Busson, Henri, 320n1
Butler, R. J., 338n119
Caesar, Julius: Hobbes and, 215; Petrarch
and, 53, 54, 65, 306nn55–56