Markku Peltonen

Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an account of early modern political culture by emphasizing the centrality of humanist rhetoric in it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9781107028296
• ISBN-10: 1107028299
• Artikelnr.: 36617155

Autorenporträt

Markku Peltonen is Professor of General History (chair founded in 1640) at the University of Helsinki. He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Mellon Fellow at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California and President of the Finnish Historical Society. His publications include Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570-1640 (Cambridge, 1995) and The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour (Cambridge, 2003). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (Cambridge, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Rhetoric, Citizenship and Popularity: 1. Rhetoric, power and citizenship
2. Rhetoric and popularity
3. Rhetoric, news and politics
4. The adversary politics of rhetoric
Part II. Rhetoric, Politics and Parliaments: 5. Rhetoric, politics and the people in the 1570s
6. Rhetoric, royal marriage and John Stubbe
7. Rhetoric and Elizabethan parliaments
8. Rhetoric, the Union and impositions in parliament, 1607-10
9. Rhetoric and adversary politics in the 1620s
10. Rhetoric, war and the grievances of the people in parliament, 1625-8
Epilogue: rhetoric, monarchy and sedition.