Title Ancient models in the early modern Republican imagination / edited by Wyger Velema, Arthur Weststeijn

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) Series Metaforms, studies in the reception of classical antiquity ; volume 12 Metaforms ; v. 12. Contents 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 Summary Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination offers a new approach to the study of the classical dimensions of early modern republican thought by analysing its specific and concrete uses of ancient republican models 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2019) Subject Republicanism -- History Republicanism -- Philosophy Political science -- Philosophy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. Political science -- Philosophy Republicanism Republicanism -- Philosophy Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Velema, Wyger, editor Weststeijn, Arthur, editor. LC no. 2017041651 ISBN 9789004351387 9004351388

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