Sarah Mortimer (Associ Associate Professor of Early Modern History

Reformation, Resistance, and Reason of State (1517-1625)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume charts the development of political thought between 1517-1625. Drawing on a wide range of sources from Europe and beyond, it offers a new reading of early modern political thought, making connections between Christian Europe and the Muslim societies that lay to its south and east.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford History Political Thought
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780199674886
• ISBN-10: 0199674884
• Artikelnr.: 61343126

Autorenporträt

Sarah Mortimer is Associate Professor of Modern History at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the relationship between political thought and religion in the early modern period. Her first book, Reason and Religion in the English Revolution won the Forkosch prize for the best first book in Intellectual History.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Empires and Cities: Political Thought in an Age of Expansion
3: The Nature of the Commonwealth
4: The Word of God and the End of Politics
5: Church and Commonwealth in the Catholic World
6: The Empires of the East: Political Thought in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal lands
7: Virtue, Ambition, and the Balanced Constitution
8: Laws, Liberties, and the Will of the People
9: Sovereignty and Reason of State
10: The Limits of Obedience: Kings, Priests, and the People
11: The Science of Politics
12: Beyond Sovereignty: War, the State, and the Laws of Nature
13: Epilogue and Conclusion: The Nature of Politics