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Author Kainulainen, Jaska

Title Paolo Sarpi : a servant of God and state / by Jaska Kainulainen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 180
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; 180.
Contents Sarpi's Venice -- Ubiquity of motion -- Postlapsarian man -- Christian mortalism -- Servitude to God and state -- Sovereignty, obedience and absolutism -- The interest of the state
Summary This book is an intellectual biography of the Venetian historian and theologian Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623). It analyses Sarpi's natural philosophy, religious ideas and political thought. Kainulainen argues that Sarpi was influenced by Neostoicism, Neoepicureanism and the sixteenth-century scientific revolution; that Sarpi was a fideist and Christian mortalist who, while critical of the contemporary Church of Rome, admired the purity of the early church. Focusing on Sarpi's separation between church and state, his use of absolutism, divine right of kings and reason of state, the book offers a fresh perspective on medieval and reformation traditions. It will be of interest to those interested in early-modern intellectual history and the interplay between science, religion and politics in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political discourse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.
SUBJECT Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623 fast
Sarpi, Paolo 1552-1623 gnd
Subject Servites -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography
SUBJECT Servites fast
Subject Historians -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography
Statesmen -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography
Renaissance -- Italy -- Venice
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Historians
Intellectual life
Renaissance
Statesmen
SUBJECT Venice (Italy) -- Intellectual life
Venice (Italy) -- Biography
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142724
Subject Italy -- Venice
Genre/Form History
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004266742
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