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Machiavellian encounters in Tudor and Stuart England : literary and political influences from the reformation to the restoration / edited by Alessandro Arienzo and Alessandra Petrina.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series.
- Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527--Influence.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò.
- Political science--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Political science.
- Political science--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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, analyzing his role and influence within courtly and prudential politics.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Introducing Machiavelli in Tudor and Stuart England; 1 Reginald Pole and the Reception of the Principe in Henrician England; 2 Stolen Words to Train a Boy King:William Thomas Translates Machiavelli; 3 Machiavelli in The Quintesence of Wit and his English Military Readers; 4 Sir Walter Raleigh's Machiavelli; 5 Machiavellianism in Christopher Marlowe'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
- 8 Republicanism and Religious Dissent: Machiavelli and the Italian Protestant Reformers 9 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's Leviathan: Religion as Ideology; Epilogue: Was England Different?; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-59315-7
- 1-317-10288-6
- 1-317-10287-8
- 1-283-80504-9
- 1-4094-3673-X
- 9781315593159
- OCLC:
- 818846535
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