书名: Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince (Ideas in Context)
作者: Peter Stacey (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (February 26, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521869897
ISBN-13: 978-0521869898
Book Description
Beginning with a sustained analysis of Seneca's theory of monarchy in the treatise De clementia, in this 2007 text Peter Stacey traces the formative impact of ancient Roman political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government on the Italian peninsula from the time of Frederick II to the early modern period. Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince offers a systematic reconstruction of the pre-humanist and humanist history of the genre of political reflection known as the mirror-for-princes tradition - a tradition which, as Stacey shows, is indebted to Seneca's speculum above all other classical accounts of the virtuous prince - and culminates with a comprehensive and controversial reading of the greatest work of renaissance political theory, Machiavelli's The Prince. Peter Stacey brings to light a story which has been lost from view in recent accounts of the Renaissance debt to classical antiquity, providing a radically revisionist account of the history of the Renaissance prince.
Peter Stacey is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.
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作者: Peter Stacey (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (February 26, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521869897
ISBN-13: 978-0521869898
Book Description
Beginning with a sustained analysis of Seneca's theory of monarchy in the treatise De clementia, in this 2007 text Peter Stacey traces the formative impact of ancient Roman political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government on the Italian peninsula from the time of Frederick II to the early modern period. Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince offers a systematic reconstruction of the pre-humanist and humanist history of the genre of political reflection known as the mirror-for-princes tradition - a tradition which, as Stacey shows, is indebted to Seneca's speculum above all other classical accounts of the virtuous prince - and culminates with a comprehensive and controversial reading of the greatest work of renaissance political theory, Machiavelli's The Prince. Peter Stacey brings to light a story which has been lost from view in recent accounts of the Renaissance debt to classical antiquity, providing a radically revisionist account of the history of the Renaissance prince.
- Spans the classical, medieval and Renaissance periods
- Provides a controversial account of Machiavelli's Renaissance masterpiece The Prince
- Questions widely held assumptions about the nature of Renaissance political thought
Peter Stacey is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.
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