The foundations of modern political thought /
Renaissance. Age of reformation.
Quentin Skinner
- Cambridge, Eng. ; New York, N.Y. ; Melbourne, Australia : Cambridge University Press, 1998
- 2 volumes ; 24 cm
v. 1. THE RENAISSANCE -- Part one: The origins of the Renaissance -- The ideal of liberty -- Rhetoric and liberty -- Scholasticism and liberty -- Part two: The Italian Renaissance -- The Florentine Renaissance -- The age of princes -- The survival of Republican values -- Part three: The Northern Renaissance -- The diffusion of humanist scholarship -- The reception of humanist political thought -- The humanist critique of humanism -- Bibliography of primary sources -- Bibliography of secondary sources -- Index -- v. 2. THE AGE OF REFORMATION -- Part one: Absolutism and the Lutheran Reformation -- The principles of Lutheranism -- The forerunners of Lutheranism -- The spread of Lutheranism -- Part two: Constitutionalism and the Counter Reformation -- The background of constitutionalism -- The revival of Thomism -- The limits of constitutionalism -- Part three: Calvinism and the theory of Revolution -- The duty to resist -- The context of the Huguenot revolution -- The right to resist -- Bibliography of primary sources -- Bibliography of secondary sources -- Index.
The two volumes of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought are intended as both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. -- Book Cover.
0521293375 (v.1) 9780521293372 (v.1)
Ciencia política --Historia Ciencia política --Filosofía Ciencia política --Teorías