From "Homo imperii" to "Civitas"
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Release : 2009
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Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108656218
The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1625584156
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
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ISBN : 9781357603984
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Author : Jonathan J. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 100925622X
A panoramic and colourful view of the many ethnic identities, languages and cultures composing the Roman Empire.
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Former Soviet republics
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Author : Dante Fedele
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004447121
Dante Fedele’s new work of reference reveals the medieval foundations of international law through a comprehensive study of a key figure of late medieval legal scholarship: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400).
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9004291938
East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century examines the (dis)unity of the Roman Empire in the fourth century from different angles, in order to offer a broad perspective on the topic and avoid an overvaluation of the political division of the empire in 395. After a methodological key-paper on the concepts of unity, the other contributors elaborate on these notions from various geo-political perspectives: the role of the army and taxation, geographical perspectives, the unity of the Church and the perception of the divisio regni of 364. Four case-studies follow, illuminating the role of concordia apostolorum, antique sports, eunuchs and the poet Prudentius on the late antique view of the Empire. Despite developments to the contrary, it appears that the Roman Empire remained (to be viewed as) a unity in all strata of society.
Author : Robin Douglass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108421989
The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1906924538
This volume provides a portion of the original text of Ciceros speech in Latin, a detailed commentary, study aids and a translation. Ingo Gildenhards commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both high school and undergraduate level. It will also be of help to Latin teachers and to anyone interested in Cicero, language and rhetoric, and the legal culture of Ancient Rome. A free online interactive edition is also available.