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1 online resource |
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Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies |
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Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series.
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Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Introducing Machiavelli in Tudor and Stuart England; 1 Reginald Pole and the Reception ofthe Principe in Henrician England; 2 Stolen Words to Train a Boy King:William Thomas Translates Machiavelli; 3 Machiavelli in The Quintesence of Witand his English Military Readers; 4 Sir Walter Raleigh's Machiavelli; 5 Machiavellianism in ChristopherMarlowe's The Jew of Malta; 6 When Pretence Rules over Essence: Shakespeare's Bastard in King John; 7 Henry V and the Just War: Shakespeare, Gentili and Machiavelli |
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8 Republicanism and Religious Dissent: Machiavelli and the Italian Protestant Reformers9 From Machiavellian Policy to Parliamentary Reason of State; 10 Order, Conflict and Liberty:Machiavellianism in English Political Thought, 1649-1660; 11 Machiavelli's Discorsi and Hobbes'sLeviathan: Religion as Ideology; Epilogue: Was England Different?; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli's books-including but not limited to the Prince-strongly influenced contemporary political debate. Overall, contributors put Machiavelli's image in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England into perspective, analysing his role and influence within courtly and prudential politics |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Influence
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SUBJECT |
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 fast |
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Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Political science
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Arienzo, Alessandro.
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Petrina, Alessandra.
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ISBN |
9781409436737 |
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140943673X |
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