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Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton
Hilary Gatti
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Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HPS; JFCX; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more violent fervor. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe argues that this turbulent age also laid the conceptual foundations of our modern ideas about liberty, justice, and democracy. Hilary Gatti shows how these ideas emerged in response to the often-violent entrenchment of monarchical power and the fragmentation of religious authority, against the backdrop of ... Read more
Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more violent fervor. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe argues that this turbulent age also laid the conceptual foundations of our modern ideas about liberty, justice, and democracy. Hilary Gatti shows how these ideas emerged in response to the often-violent entrenchment of monarchical power and the fragmentation of religious authority, against the backdrop of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691163833
SKU
V9780691163833
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About Hilary Gatti
Hilary Gatti taught for many years at the Sapienza University of Rome. Her books include Essays on Giordano Bruno (Princeton), Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science, and The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge: Giordano Bruno in England.
Reviews for Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton
"Gatti offers a lucid primer of some famous and other less well known texts and debates of the period ... an eloquent analysis of the rich tradition of thinking about liberty in the early modern period."
Victoria Kahn, Times Literary Supplement "[An] illuminating book."
Jacqueline Broad, Times Higher Education "[Gatti] offers thorough, sweeping treatments of major figures in this period
Machiavelli, Luther, Shakespeare, ... Read more
Victoria Kahn, Times Literary Supplement "[An] illuminating book."
Jacqueline Broad, Times Higher Education "[Gatti] offers thorough, sweeping treatments of major figures in this period
Machiavelli, Luther, Shakespeare, ... Read more