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individualism. education and; religion and; Renaissance and; State and; twentieth century and

Industrial Revolution

The Inevitability of Patriarchy
(Goldberg)

Inferno
(Dante)

Inherit the Wind

Interior Castle
(Teresa of Avila)

In the Heat of the Night

Isaac

Isaiah

Islam

Isolde

Israel. art and; democracy and; God, revelation of and; God of Abraham and; history, view of and; humility and; importance of; Jesus and; nature and; salvation and; women in

The Italian Renaissance
(Plumb)

It’s a Wonderful Life

Iulus

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (Wordsworth)

Jacob

James I, King

James II, King

James VI, King

Jefferson, Thomas

Jerome, Saint

Jerusalem

Jerusalem Delivered
(Tasso)

Jesus; baptism of; crucifixion of; heresies and; as homeless; Incarnation of; Israel and; law and; light and; love and; miracles of; salvation and; slavery and; Western civilization and

Jews.
See
Israel

Joan of Arc

John, Saint

John of Leyden

John of the Cross, Saint

John Paul II, Pope

Johnson, Samuel

Joplin, Scott

Julian the Apostate

Julius Caesar

Julius II, Pope

justice; ancient Greece and; of God; suffrage and

Justinian

Justin Martyr, Saint

Juvenal

Kant, Immanuel

Kazan, Elia

Keats, John

Kennedy, Anthony

Kepler, Johannes

Kerry, John

Kierkegard, Soren

King Lear
(Shakespeare)

Kinsey, Alfred

Kirk, Russell

Kitto, H. D. F.

Klee, Paul

Koran

labor

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (Yeats)

Lambeth Conference (1930)

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de

Lancelot

Laplace, Pierre-Simon

Last Judgment
(Michelangelo)

The Last of the Mohicans
(Cooper)

Last Supper
(Da Vinci)

La Vite Nuova
(Dante)

law. ancient Greece and; eternal; Jesus and; natural

The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(Scott)

Leaves of Grass
(Whitman)

Le Corbusier

Left

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

Lenin, Vladimir

Leonidas

Leo XIII, Pope

Leviathan.
See also
State

Leviathan
(Hobbes)

Lewis. S.

Libertas Praestantissimum
(Leo XIII)

Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
(Jefferson)

Life
magazine

Life of Pericles
(Plutarch)

Lister, Joseph

literature. medieval; nineteenth-century; Renaissance; twentieth-century

Lives of the Painters
(Vasari)

Livy

Locke, John

Logan’s Run

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Louis IX, Saint

Louis XIV, King

love.
agape
and; ancient Greece and; Augustine, Saint and; charity and; Christianity and;
eros
and; free; God and; Jesus and; lust and; Middle Ages and; paganism and; Plato and; poetry of; Rome and

Lucius Junius Brutus

Lucretius

Luke, Saint

The Lusiads
(Camoens)

Luther, Martin

Macbeth
(Shakespeare)

Machiavelli, Niccolò

McCarthy, Joseph

McKinley, William

Madison, James

Madonna

man. causes of; dignity of; end of; fall of; glory of; as image of God; as machine; nature of; perfection of; Renaissance and glory of; as social construction; State and end of; will of

Manasseh

Mandeville, Bernard

A Man for All Seasons

Manicheans

Mantegna, Andrea

manual labor

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Mao Tse-tung

Marc Antony

Marcellinus

Marcus Aurelius

Marcuse, Herbert

Marius

Marlowe, Christopher

marriage

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(Blake)

martyrdom

Marx, Karl

Marxism

Mary Magdalene
(Caravaggio)

materialism; ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; Plato and

mathematics

Matthew, Saint

Mauriac, Francois

Mead, Margaret

Measure for Measure
(Shakespeare)

media

medicine.
See
science

Medieval and Early Modern Science
(Crombie)

Melville, Herman

Memorabilia
(Xenophon)

The Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare)

“The Merchant’s Tale” (Chaucer)

mercy

metaphysics

Metaphysics
(Aristotle)

Methodism

Michelangelo

Middle Ages. Aquinas, Thomas, Saint and; Aristotle and; art and; Christianity in; culture and; as dark; drama and; education and; global warming and; Gothic cathedrals and; Islam and; literature of; love and; metaphysics and; myths about; nature and; paganism and; reason and; Renaissance and; salvation and; science and; witches and; women and

Mill, John Stuart

“The Miller’s Tale” (Chaucer)

Milton, John

Miro, Joan

Moby-Dick
(Melville)

“Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau” (Blake)

modernity. Renaissance and; tradition and

Mohammed

Montaigne, Michel de

morality. Aristotle and; nineteenth century and; Western civilization and

moral relativism; ancient Greece and; democracy and

More, Henry

More, Paul Elmer

More, Thomas

Morris, William

Mosee

Moses

Mother Earth

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mucius

Muggeridge, Malcolm

multiculturalism

Murray, Gilbert

music

Mussolini, Benito

“My Last Duchess” (Browning)

mysticism

Napoleon

natural law. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; Jesus and; Locke, John and; marriage and; piety and

natural science.
See
science

nature. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; cult of the child and; God and; Middle Ages and; paganism and; Romantic worship of

Nazism, Nazis

Nebuchadnezzar

Nero

The New Life
(Dante)

Newman, John Henry

News from Nowhere
(Morris)

Newton, Isaac

New York Times

Nicholas Nickleby
(Dickens)

Nicomachean Ethics
(Aristotle)

Nietzsche, Friedrich

1984
(Orwell)

nineteenth century. Arnold, Matthew and; art and; cult of the child and; evil and; family and; feminism and; man, perfection of and; man, worship of and; morality and; nature, worship of and; Nietzsche, Friedrich and; poetry of; progress and; science and; United States in; women and.
See also
Romanticism, Romantics

nominalism

Ockham, William of

O’Connor, Flannery

Ode. Intimations of Immortality
(Wordsworth)

Ode to a Nightingale
(Keats)

Odysseus