Ancient models in the early modern republican imagination / / 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, it...

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Superior document:Metaforms. Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity, Volume 12
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Classical Republicanism and Ancient Republican Models / Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn
  • Renaissance Historicism and the Model of Rome in Florentine Historiography / Jacques Bos
  • The Roman Republic as a Constitutional Order in the Italian Renaissance / Benjamin Straumann
  • Commonwealths for Preservation and Increase: Ancient Rome in Venice and the Dutch Republic / Arthur Weststeijn
  • Early Modern Greek Histories and Republican Political Thought / William Stenhouse
  • A Classical Confederacy: The Example of the Achaean League in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Jaap Nieuwstraten
  • From Failed Republic to Polite Polis: Ancient Athens in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England / Christine Zabel
  • Painting Plutarch: Images of Sparta in the Dutch Republic and Enlightenment France / Wessel Krul
  • Against Democracy: Dutch Eighteenth-Century Critics of Ancient and Modern Popular Government / Wyger Velema
  • The Hebrew Republic in Sixteenth-Century Political Debate: The Struggle for Jurisdiction / Guido Bartolucci
  • The Hebrew Republic in Dutch Political Thought, c. 1650–1675 / René Koekkoek*
  • The Helvetians as Ancestors and Brutus as a Model: The Classical Past in the Early Modern Swiss Confederation / Thomas Maissen
  • Classical Models in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania / Tomasz Gromelski
  • America’s Antiquities: The Ancient Past in the Creation of the American Republic / Eran Shalev.