Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto)

Broschiertes Buch

Plutarch's Prism

Beschreibung

Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and read and invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the 18th century, contributing to a tradition of 'public humanism'

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

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781009243469
• ISBN-10: 1009243462
• Artikelnr.: 69824576