Markku Peltonen

Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570 1640

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new perspective on two seminal themes in English political thought before the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 756g
• ISBN-13: 9780521496957
• ISBN-10: 0521496950
• Artikelnr.: 21594441

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: classical humanism and republicanism in England before the Civil War
1. Classical humanism restated
2. Classical republicanism in the margins of Elizabethan politics
3. Civic life and the mixed constitution in Jacobean political thought
4. Francis Bacon, Thomas Hedley and the true greatness of Britain
5. Thomas Scott: virtue, liberty and the 'mixed Gouernement'
6. The continuity of the humanist tradition in early Caroline England
Epilogue
Bibliography.