L’Intériorité au temps de la Renaissance

Suspicious interiority, a dark space of secrecy. Guilty interiority, condemned to be surveilled by the religious. Prized interiority when faced with the dizzying realm of appearances as well. Then little by little, heaven and hell would be internalized. During the Renaissance, the ambivalence of interiority was appreciated. But they were in the process of letting it speak. And as Montaigne said, “We must probe the inside.” (Essais II, i).