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Paolo Sarpi : a servant of God and state / by Jaska Kainulainen ; Vincenzo Giaconi, cover illustration.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kainulainen, Jaska, author.
- Series:
- Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 180.
- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 1573-4188 ; Volume 180
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.
- Sarpi, Paolo.
- Servites--Italy--Venice--Biography.
- Servites.
- Historians--Italy--Venice--Biography.
- Historians.
- Statesmen--Italy--Venice--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Venice (Italy)--Intellectual life.
- Venice (Italy).
- Italy--Venice.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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. Kainulaineen 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Sarpi's Venice 13
- 3 Ubiquity of Motion 56
- 4 Postlapsarian Man 100
- 5 Christian Mortalism 126
- 6 Servitude to God and State 164
- 7 Sovereignty, Obedience and Absolutism 195
- 8 The Interest of the State 235
- 9 Epilogue 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kainulainen, Jaska. Paolo Sarpi : a servant of God and state.
- ISBN:
- 9789004266742
- OCLC:
- 873805749
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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