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This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology....
Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the...
The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy.The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in...
This collaborative volume offers the first historical reconstruction of the concept of popular sovereignty from antiquity to the twentieth century. First formulated between the late sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the various early modern conceptions of the...
Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The...
This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, 'Questions...
" J'ai tenté d'esquisser l'essor et le déclin, au sein de la théorie politique anglophone, de ce que j'ai appelé une conception néo-romaine de la liberté civile. La théorie néo-romaine se fait jour au cours de la Révolution...
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