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Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought
Marco Barducci
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Description for Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought
Hardcover. A reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; engaging with reception studies as a whole, and exploring how seventeenth-century English debate contributed to wider European thought. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBAH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Engaging with the reception of all of Grotius's key works and a wide range of topics, the volume has much to say about the search for peace in an age of religious conflict and about the cultural roots of the Enlightenment. Most of all, Marco Barducci aims to deepen our understanding of the connections that made English political thought part of the history of European ... Read more
Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Engaging with the reception of all of Grotius's key works and a wide range of topics, the volume has much to say about the search for peace in an age of religious conflict and about the cultural roots of the Enlightenment. Most of all, Marco Barducci aims to deepen our understanding of the connections that made English political thought part of the history of European ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198754589
SKU
V9780198754589
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About Marco Barducci
After a few years spent teaching and researching at the University of Florence, Marco Barducci has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Luigi Firpo Centre for Research on Political Thought. His research focuses on the exchange and reception of political ideas between England, the Netherlands, and Italy in the seventeenth ... Read more
Reviews for Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought
a valuable addition to the evergrowing literature on this important thinker... Barducci discusses his subject with great scholarship and erudition, and he is to be commended for his innovative transnational approach that requires a high level of linguistic skill as well as the command of multiple historiographies.
Grotiana
Barducci has delivered a worthy and helpful contribution to the ... Read more
Grotiana
Barducci has delivered a worthy and helpful contribution to the ... Read more