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Author : Julia Mebane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009389297
Employs the metaphor of the body politic in Ancient Rome to rethink the transition from the Republic to Principate.
Author : Julia Mebane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0355077779
One of the great puzzles of classical antiquity is that while the Roman republic came to an end in 31 B.C.E., its paradigm of politics did not. Augustus, the first emperor, took the title of princeps--first citizen--and insisted that he was nothing more than a republican magistrate. Institutions maintained their traditional functions and writers roundly proclaimed the restoration of the ancestral res publica after a generation of civil war. Indeed, if we take the Romans at their word, the republic was alive and well for nearly a century after its fall. I take the apparent disjuncture between political discourse and constitutional form as my point of departure. Drawing on a diverse range of poetic, historical, and antiquarian texts, my dissertation argues that thinkers did acknowledge the implementation of autocracy, but that they did so in the realm of figurative language rather than explicitly political speech. In particular, they radically revised one of the foundational metaphors of Roman political life: the metaphor of the body politic.
Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316583555
Christine de Pizan was born in Venice and raised in Paris at the court of Charles V of France. Widowed at the age of twenty-five, she turned to writing as a source of comfort and income, and went on to produce a remarkable series of books, including poetry, politics, chivalry, warfare, religion and philosophy. She is considered to be France's first female professional writer. This was the first translation into modern English of Christine de Pizan's major political work, The Book of the Body Politic. Written during the Hundred Years' War, it discusses the education and behaviour appropriate for princes, nobility and common people, so that all classes can understand their responsibilities towards society as a whole. A product of a time of civil unrest, The Book of the Body Politic offers a medieval political theory of interdependence and social responsibility from the perspective of an educated woman.
Author : Kate Langdon Forhan,Cary Joseph Nederman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136123481
A textbook anthology of important works of political thought revealing the development of ideas from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Includes new translations of both well-known and ignored writers, and an introductory overview.
Author : Brian Walters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192575944
That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic suggest that the idea was hardly new. In speeches, letters, philosophical tracts, poems, and histories, Cicero and his peers obsessed over the illnesses, disfigurements, and deaths that were imagined to have beset their body politic, portraying rivals as horrific diseases or accusing opponents of butchering and even murdering the state. Body-political imagery had long enjoyed popularity among Greek authors, but these earlier images appear muted in comparison and it is only in the republic that the body first becomes fully articulated as a means for imagining the political community. In the works of republican authors is found a state endowed with nervi, blood, breath, limbs, and organs; a body beaten, wounded, disfigured, and infected; one with scars, hopes, desires, and fears; that can die, be killed, or kill in turn. Such images have often been discussed in isolation, yet this is the first book to offer a sustained examination of republican imagery of the body politic, with particular emphasis on the use of bodily-political images as tools of persuasion and the impact they exerted on the politics of Rome in the first century BCE.
Author : Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education of princes
ISBN : 1649590520
"Christine de Pizan's Body Politic (1406-1407) is the first political treatise to have been written not just by a woman, but by a woman capable of holding her own in a normally male domain. It advises not just the prince, as was traditional, but also nobles, knights, and the common people, promoting the ideals of interdependence and social responsibility. Rooted in the mind-set of medieval Christendom, it heralds the humanism of the Renaissance, highlighting classical culture and Roman civic virtues. The Body Politic resounds still today, urging the need for probity in public life and the importance of responsibilities as well as rights"--
Author : Jed W. Atkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107007
A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans' enduring contribution to key political ideas.
Author : David George Hale
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112415146
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Author : Bernard J. Dobski,Dustin A. Gish
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739170960
The chapters in Shakespeare and the Body Politic examine the tensions between the passion and ambition of individuals and the limits of the political communities that encompass and inform them. Shakespeare provides his audiences and readers both timely and timeless political lessons through his diverse portraits of the body politic in his plays and poetry–from ancient city-states of Greece and Rome to the early modern cities and kingdoms of his own time.
Author : Dean Hammer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185682
Links modern political theorists with the Romans who inspired them Roman contributions to political theory have been acknowledged primarily in the province of law and administration. Even with a growing interest among classicists in Roman political thought, most political theorists view it as merely derivative of Greek philosophy. Focusing on the works of key Roman thinkers, Dean Hammer recasts the legacy of their political thought, examining their imaginative vision of a vulnerable political world and the relationship of the individual to this realm. By bringing modern political theorists into conversation with the Romans who inspired them—Arendt with Cicero, Machiavelli with Livy, Montesquieu with Tacitus, Foucault with Seneca—the author shows how both ancient Roman and modern European thinkers seek to recover an attachment to the political world that we actually inhabit, rather than to a utopia—a “perfect nowhere” outside of the existing order. Brimming with fresh interpretations of both ancient and modern theorists, this book offers provocative reading for classicists, political scientists, and anyone interested in political theory and philosophy. It is also a timely meditation on the hidden ways in which democracy can give way to despotism when the animating spirit of politics succumbs to resignation, cynicism, and fear.
Author : Daniel J. Kapust
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139497114
Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as other classical writers and later political thinkers, this book develops interpretations of the three historians' writings centering on their treatments of liberty, rhetoric, and social and political conflict. Sallust is interpreted as an antagonistic republican, for whom elite conflict serves as an outlet and channel for the antagonisms of political life. Livy is interpreted as a consensualist republican, for whom character and its observation helps to maintain the body politic. Tacitus is interpreted as being centrally concerned with the development of prudence and as a subtle critic of imperial rule.
Author : Dean Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521195249
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Roman political thought, arguing that Romans engaged in wide-ranging reflections on politics.
Author : Joy Connolly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691162256
Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy.
Author : Frank E. Adcock
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : 0472060880
Studies Roman politics from the early kings, through the Republic, to the age of dictatorships
Author : Benjamin Straumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199950928
"The crisis and fall of the Roman Republic spawned a tradition of political thought that sought to evade the Republic's fate--despotism. Thinkers from Cicero to Bodin, Montesquieu and the American Founders saw constitutionalism, not virtue, as the remedy. This study traces Roman constitutional thought from antiquity to the Revolutionary Era"--