The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Klappentext
Professer Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx ID=2474

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Part I. The Origins of the Renaissance: 1. The ideal of liberty; 2. Rhetoric and liberty; 3. Scholasticism and liberty; Part II. The Italian Renaissance: 4. The Florentine renaissance; 5. The age of princes; 6. The survival of republican values; Part III. The Northern Renaissance: 7. The diffusion of humanist scholarship; 8. The reception of humanist political thought; 9. The humanist critique of humanism; Bibliography of primary sources; Bibliography of secondary sources; Index.

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