Foundations of Modern Political Thought The Renaissance

Name: Foundations of Modern Political Thought The Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780521293372

ISBN-10: 0521293375

ISBN-13: 9780521293372

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: 330
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.90" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Notes on the text



The origins of the Renaissance



The ideal of liberty



Rhetoric and liberty



Scholasticism and liberty



The Italian Renaissance



The Florentine renaissance



The age of princes



The survival of republican values



The Northern Renaissance



The diffusion of humanist scholarship



The reception of humanist political thought



The humanist critique of humanism


Bibliography of primary sources


Bibliography of secondary sources


Index