Ideas Of Liberty In Early Modern Europe

Author : Hilary Gatti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691176116

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Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe by Hilary Gatti Pdf

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 the westward advance of Islam and the discovery of the New World. She looks at Machiavelli's defense of republican political liberty, and traces how liberty became intertwined with free will and religious pluralism in the writings of Luther, Erasmus, Jean Bodin, and Giordano Bruno. She examines how the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the clash of science and religion gave rise to concepts of liberty as freedom of thought and expression. Returning to Machiavelli and moving on to Jacques Auguste de Thou, Paolo Sarpi, and Milton, Gatti delves into debates about the roles of parliamentary government and a free press in guaranteeing liberties. Drawing on a breadth of canonical and lesser-known writings, Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe reveals how an era stricken by war and injustice gave birth to a more enlightened world.

Author : J. H. Shennan
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012081520

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Liberty and Order in Early Modern Europe by J. H. Shennan Pdf

Author : David S. Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442205352

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A Concise History of Modern Europe by David S. Mason Pdf

Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, A Concise History of Modern Europe provides a readable, succinct history of the continent from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to the present day. Avoiding a detailed, lengthy chronology, the book focuses on key events and ideas to explore the causes and consequences of revolutions—be they political, economic, or scientific; the origins and development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity. Any reader needing a broad overview of the sweep of European history since 1789 will find this book, published in a first edition under the title Revolutionary Europe, an engaging and cohesive narrative.

Author : Yves Marie Bercé
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0719019672

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Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Yves Marie Bercé Pdf

Author : Cesare Cuttica,Glenn Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317322245

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Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe by Cesare Cuttica,Glenn Burgess Pdf

The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of ‘absolutism’ and ‘monarchism’, examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.

Author : William M. Reddy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521315093

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Money and Liberty in Modern Europe by William M. Reddy Pdf

The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France, and Germany, has revealed an increasingly poor fit between these concepts and the reality they purport to explain. Some historians have reacted by rejecting class; others have proposed bold revisions in our understanding of it that enable it to encompass new research findings. This study does neither. Instead, building on interpretive method Professor Reddy proposes to replace class with an alternative concept that seeks to capture from a new angle the fundamental relations of exchange and authority that have shaped social life in modern Europe.

Author : William M. Reddy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521304458

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Money and Liberty in Modern Europe by William M. Reddy Pdf

The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France, and Germany, has revealed an increasingly poor fit between these concepts and the reality they purport to explain. Some historians have reacted by rejecting class; others have proposed bold revisions in our understanding of it that enable it to encompass new research findings. This study does neither. Instead, building on interpretive method Professor Reddy proposes to replace class with an alternative concept that seeks to capture from a new angle the fundamental relations of exchange and authority that have shaped social life in modern Europe.

Author : Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Europe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080595759

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The Dynamic Force of Liberty in Modern Europe by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Pdf

Author : Martin van Gelderen,Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0521802032

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Republicanism by Martin van Gelderen,Quentin Skinner Pdf

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European traditions. Volume I focuses on the importance of anti-monarchism in Europe and analyses the relationship between citizenship and civic humanism, concluding with studies of the relationship between constitutionalism and republicanism in the period between 1500 and 1800. Volume II, first published in 2002, is devoted to the study of key republican values such as liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. This volume also addresses the role of women in European republican traditions, and contains a number of in-depth studies of the relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society in early modern Europe.--

Author : Filip Batselé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Liberty
ISBN : 3030368564

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Liberty, Slavery and the Law in Early Modern Western Europe by Filip Batselé Pdf

This book investigates the legal evolution of the "free soil principle" in England, France and the Low Countries during the Early Modern period (ca. 1500-1800), which essentially stated that, as soon as slaves entered a certain country, they would immediately gain their freedom. This book synthesizes the existing literature on the origins and evolution of the principle, adds new insights by drawing on previously undiscussed primary sources on the development of free soil in the Low Countries and employs a pan-Western, European and comparative approach to identify and explain the differences and similarities in the application of this principle in France, England and the Low Countries. Divided into four sections, the book begins with a brief introduction to the subject matter, putting it in its historical context. Slavery is legally defined, using the established international law definition, and both the status of slavery in Europe before the Early Modern Period and the Atlantic slave trade are discussed. Secondly, the book assesses the legal origins of the free soil principle in England, France and the Low Countries during the period 1500-1650 and discusses the legal repercussions of slaves coming to England, France and the Low Countries from other countries, where the institution was legally recognized. Thirdly, it addresses the further development of the free soil principle during the period 1650-1800. In the fourth and last section, the book uses the insights gained to provide a pan-Western, European and comparative perspective on the origins and application of the free soil principle in Western Europe. In this regard, it compares the origins of free soil for the respective countries discussed, as well as its application during the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade. This perspective makes it possible to explain some of the divergences in approaches between the countries examined and represents the first-ever full-scale country comparison on this subject in a book.

Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0521386667

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The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe by Anthony Pagden Pdf

Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and political science.

Author : Annelien De Dijn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674245594

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Freedom by Annelien De Dijn Pdf

Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.

Author : Quentin Skinner,Martin van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107033061

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe by Quentin Skinner,Martin van Gelderen Pdf

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

Author : Luke Glanville
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226077086

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Sovereignty & the Responsibility to Protect by Luke Glanville Pdf

In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi’s forces. In invoking the “responsibility to protect,” the resolution draws on the principle that sovereign states are responsible and accountable to the international community for the protection of their populations and that the international community can act to protect populations when national authorities fail to do so. The idea that sovereignty includes the responsibility to protect is often seen as a departure from the classic definition, but it actually has deep historical roots. In Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Luke Glanville argues that this responsibility extends back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that states have since been accountable for this responsibility to God, the people, and the international community. Over time, the right to national self-governance came to take priority over the protection of individual liberties, but the noninterventionist understanding of sovereignty was only firmly established in the twentieth century, and it remained for only a few decades before it was challenged by renewed claims that sovereigns are responsible for protection. Glanville traces the relationship between sovereignty and responsibility from the early modern period to the present day, and offers a new history with profound implications for the present.

Author : Quentin Skinner,Martin van Gelderen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1107031842

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe by Quentin Skinner,Martin van Gelderen Pdf

An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe.