Reference

  See bibliography, chap. vi. (g). Aubry, La Methode des etudes 
  ecclesiastiques dans nos seminaires depuis le concile de Trente , 
  1900. Picot, Essai historique sur l'influence de la religion en 

by James MacCaffrey

The fifteenth century may be regarded as a period of transition from the ideals of the Middle Ages to those of modern times. The world was fast becoming more secular in its tendencies, and, as a necessary result, theories and principles that had met till then with almost universal acceptance in literature, in art, in education, and in government, were challenged by many as untenable.

                     (a) The Renaissance.

by Alfred Thayer Mahan

by Edward Creasy

by William O. Blake

by William O. Blake

by H.G. Wells