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. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account of all the
principal texts of the period, discussing in turn the chief political
writings of Dante, Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more,
Luther and Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he
also examines a very large number of lesser writers in order to
explain the general social and intellectual context in which these
leading theorists worked. He thus presents the history not as a
procession of 'classic texts' but are more readily intelligible. He
traces by this means the gradual emergence of the vocabulary of modern
political thought, and in particular the crucial concept of the State.
We are given an insight into the actual processes of the formation of
ideologies and into some of the linkages between political theory and
practice. Professor 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
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ISBN
9781139929868
Publisert
2014
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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