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Ideas of liberty in early modern Europe : from Machiavelli to Milton /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Political liberty. Niccolo Machiavelli : liberty and the law ; Niccolo Machiavelli : Liberty and Fortuna ; Niccolo Machiavelli and Sir Thomas More ; The rule of the Prince
- Liberty and religion. The bondage or the freedom of the will : Martin Luther and Erasmus of Rotterdam ; "Of Our Own We Have Only Sin" : John Calvin and the problem of heresy ; Inquisition : the trial of Giordano Bruno ; Religion as dogma, or religion as debate? Richard Hooker and Jacobus Arminius ; Libertas philosophandi, or the liberty of thought ; Between the Prince and parliament ; The new drama : William Shakespeare ; The new science : from Giordano Bruno to Francis Bacon ; The new science : Galileo Galilei
- The freedom of the press. The problems of writing history : from Jacques Augueste de Thou to Paolo Sarpi ; The search for new liberties : John Milton ; John Milton : Areopagitica ; The virtues of schisms and sects
- Epilogue. Henry Neville, the Republic of Venice, and the "Glorious Revolution" of 1689
- Conclusion.