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Plutarch's Prism: Ideas in Context

Autor Rebecca Kingston
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 ian 2024
Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and read and invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the 18th century, contributing to a tradition of 'public humanism'
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009243469
ISBN-10: 1009243462
Pagini: 456
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
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List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. A brief introduction to Plutarch and a comparison of Cicero and Plutarch on public ethics; 2. The secret history of Plutarch (and the history of Pseudo-Plutarch) and a brief account of reception in renaissance Italy; Part II. 3. Plutarch in early French renaissance public humanism: Geoffroy Tory and Guillaume Budé; 4. Plutarch in early French renaissance public humanism: Desiderius Erasmus and Claude de Seyssel; 5. Tudor Plutarch; 6. Plutarch in later French humanism and reformation: Georges de Selve, Jacques Amyot and Jean Bodin; 7. Bernard de Girard Du Haillan and Michel de Montaigne on thinking through the public good in a time of civil discord; Part III. 8. Shedding new light on Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651); 9. Plutarch on stage: Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine; 10. Plutarch in the long eighteenth century with a focus on British and Irish political thought; 11. Plutarch in French enlightenment thought: the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, the Abbé Mably and Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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