Rebecca Kingston

Gebundenes Buch

Plutarch's Prism

Beschreibung

"Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Elizabeth I herself translated Plutarch in her later years, while Jacques Amyot's famous translations of Plutarch's The Parallel Lives led to the wide distribution of his work and served as a key resource for Shakespeare in the writing of his Roman plays, through Sir Thomas North's English translations. Rebecca Kingston's new study explores how Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and how his works were invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the eighteenth century, contributing to a tradition she calls 'public humanism.' This book traces the shifting uses of Plutarch in the Enlightenment, leading to the decline of this tradition of 'public humanism.' Throughout, the importance of Plutarch's work is highlighted as a key cultural reference and for its insight into important aspects of public service"--

Autor

Rebeca Kingston is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the recipient of three Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants, and has been awarded research fellowships at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the Bodleian Library Centre for the Study of the Book, and the Jackman Institute for the Humanities at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Montesquieu and the Parlement of Bordeaux (1996), which was awarded the Prix Montesquieu by the Société Montesquieu, and Public Passion: Rethinking the Grounds for Political Justice (2011). She is editing the forthcoming Plutarch: Selected Writings, with the translator Elizabeth Sawyer for the series 'Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781009243483
• ISBN-10: 1009243489
• Artikelnr.: 64106754