Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe
Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe
Margaret C. Jacob
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USDThis volume of essays reflects the interests and expertise of H. G. Koenigsberger, Professor of History at King's College London, who has written and taught widely on early modern Europe, from Sicily and Spain to Germany, France and the Netherlands. The contributors pay tribute to Koenigsberger's range of interest by taking up themes that have resonated through his lectures, seminars and public writings. What emerges from a variety of approaches and topics is an overriding concern with intellectual unity, an overview which encompasses and reconciles the values of the politician or scholar with those of the spiritual idealist. Even the most overtly political of the major cultural figures discussed in these pages, as Robert Kingdon's essay on Calvin demonstrates, bent their political will to the service of an intense spiritual idealism.
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August 2002Paperback
9780521527026
328 pages
229 × 153 × 23 mm
0.535kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The court of the Spanish Habsburgs: a peculiar institution? J. H. Elliott
- 2. The magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici: between myth and history Melissa Meriam Bullard
- 3. Political rhetoric and poetic meaning in Renaissance culture: Clément Marot and the Field of Cloth of Gold Phyllis Mack
- 4. The unlikely Machiavellian: William of Orange and the princely virtues Guy Wells
- 5. The Estates of Brabant to the end of the fifteenth century: the make-up of the assembly Emile Lousse
- 6. Presents and pensions: a methodological search and the case study of Count Nils Bielke's prosecution for treason in connection with gratifications from France Ragnhild Hatton
- 7. Between Bruni and Machiavelli: history, law and historicism in Poggio Bracciolini Frederick Krantz
- 8. Constitutional discourse in France, 1527–1549 Sarah Hanley
- 9. Lieuwe van Aitzema: a soured but knowing eye Herbert H. Rowen
- 10. John Calvin's contribution to representative government Robert M. Kingdon
- 11. Luther and the humanists A. G. Dickens
- 12. Scholars and ecclesiastical history in the Early Modern period: the influence of Ferdinando Ughelli Denys Hay
- 13. 'By an Orphean charm': science and the two cultures in seventeenth-century England James R. Jacob
- 14. The crisis of the European mind: Hazard revisited Margaret C. Jacob
- 15. Isaac Beeckman and music D. P. Walker
- 15. Decadence, shift, cultural changes and the universality of Leonardo da Vinci Dorothy Koenigsberger
- 16. Bibliography of the writings of Helmut Georg Koenigsberger
- Index.
