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Herrick's Cultural Materialism by Mary Thomas Crane Most students of the English Renaissance must by now be aware of the fallacy of "Tillyardism," the belief that an orderly and hierarchical world-picture was the universal basis of human thought in sixteenth-century England.1 This approach is, of course, considered fallacious partly because it attributes false consensus to a culture complicated by conflicting beliefs and goals, but also because it deals in "ideas" — essential human concerns thought to transcend social and political interest — rather than "ideology" — such ideas as they relate to and further the political interests of a dominant class or cultural hegemony.2 One effect of the rejection of "Tillyardism" has been a tendencyto ignore the texts and concepts previously associated with traditional history of ideas, resulting in a flattened view of ideology which in some cases comes to look like a narrowly political world picture.3 For although many critics accept, in theory, t
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Herrick's Cultural Materialism by Mary Thomas Crane Most students of the English Renaissance must by now be aware of the fallacy of "Tillyardism," the belief that an orderly and hierarchical world-picture was the universal basis of human thought in sixteenth-century England.1 This approach is, of course, considered fallacious partly because it attributes false consensus to a culture complicated by conflicting beliefs and goals, but also because it deals in "ideas" — essential human concerns thought to transcend social and political interest — rather than "ideology" — such ideas as they relate to and further the political interests of a dominant class or cultural hegemony.2 One effect of the rejection of "Tillyardism" has been a tendencyto ignore the texts and concepts previously associated with traditional history of ideas, resulting in a flattened view of ideology which in some cases comes to look like a narrowly political world picture.3 For although many critics accept, in theory, t
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