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The bonds of humanity : Cicero's legacies in European social and political thought, ca. 1100-ca. 1550 / Cary J. Nederman.
LIBRA JA84.E9 N44 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nederman, Cary J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Influence.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Political science--Europe--History.
- Political science.
- Social sciences.
- History.
- Europe.
- Social sciences--Europe--History.
- Ciceronianism.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 220 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Surveys the many different impacts of Ciceronian theories on a diverse array of texts and authors between 1100 and 1550, presenting a counternarrative to the widely accepted belief in the dominance of Aristotelianism in early European political and social thought"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Ciceronian ideas in early European social and political thought
- Prelude to the early European Cicero(s)
- Words and deeds : some twelfth-century Ciceros
- John of Salisbury : self-proclaimed Ciceronian
- Cicero in the universities
- Ciceronian impulses in Marsiglio of Padua
- Cicero speaks French
- Ciceronian imperialism
- Cicero against empire : Bartolomé de Las Casas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271085005
- 0271085002
- OCLC:
- 1120969941
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