Ancient models in the early modern republican imagination / / edited by Wyger Velema, Arthur Weststeijn.

• Superior document: Metaforms. Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity, Volume 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Velema, Wyger,; Weststeijn, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Metaforms ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Introduction: Classical Republicanism and Ancient Republican Models /; Renaissance Historicism and the Model of Rome in Florentine Historiography /; The Roman Republic as a Constitutional Order in the Italian Renaissance /; Commonwealths for Preservation and Increase: Ancient Rome in Venice and the Dutch Republic /; Early Modern Greek Histories and Republican Political Thought /; A Classical Confederacy: The Example of the Achaean League in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic /; From Failed Republic to Polite Polis: Ancient Athens in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England /; Painting Plutarch: Images of Sparta in the Dutch Republic and Enlightenment France /; Against Democracy: Dutch Eighteenth-Century Critics of Ancient and Modern Popular Government /; The Hebrew Republic in Sixteenth-Century Political Debate: The Struggle for Jurisdiction /; The Hebrew Republic in Dutch Political Thought, c. 1650–1675 /; The Helvetians as Ancestors and Brutus as a Model: The Classical Past in the Early Modern Swiss Confederation /; Classical Models in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania /; America’s Antiquities: The Ancient Past in the Creation of the American Republic /
• ISBN: 9004351388
• ISSN: 2212-9405
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Wyger Velema, Arthur Weststeijn.

Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination , edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective. While most scholars agree on the importance of the classical world to early modern republican theorists, its role is all too often described in rather abstract and general terms such as “classical republicanism” or the “neo-roman theory of free states”. The contributions to this volume propose a different approach and all focus on the specific ways in which ancient republics such as Rome, Athens, Sparta, and the Hebrew Republic served as models for early modern republican thought. The result is a novel interpretation of the impact of antiquity on early modern republicanism.