Foundations of Modern Political Thought The Age of Reformation

Name: Foundations of Modern Political Thought The Age of Reformation
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ISBN: 9780521294355

ISBN-10: 0521294355

ISBN-13: 9780521294355

Edition: 1978

Authors: Quentin Skinner

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A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Volume One deals with the Renaissance, Volume Two with the Age of Reformation. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account of all the principal texts of the period, discussing in turn the chief political writings of Dante, Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more, Luther and Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/30/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 414
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




Absolutism and the Lutheran Reformation



The principles of Lutheranism



The forerunners of Lutheranism



The spread of Lutheranism



Constitutionalism and the Counter Reformation



The background of constitutionalism



The revival of Thomism



The limits of constitutionalism



Calvinism and the Theory of Revolution



The duty to resist



The context of the Huguenot revolution



The right to resist


Conclusion


Bibliography of primary sources


Bibliography of secondary sources


Index