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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626"”.
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
… in the Renaissance and Restoration—Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton—were engaged in constructing this Hermetic mode of thinking to illustrate individuals' ability and responsibility for 'saving' themselves through the gnosis of self-discovery, the gnosis that emphasized living with and in the …
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Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724
… in the writings of Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon opened up a new discourse of collective identity that found its most developed expression in the writings of the French and English people who first colonized North America. Among the authors whose work I examine are Marc Lescarbot, …