Ancient models in the early modern Republican imagination / edited by Wyger Velema, Arthur Weststeijn.

Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination offers a new approach to the study of the classical dimensions of early modern republican thought by analysing its specific and concrete uses of ancient republican models.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Velema, Wyger (Editor), Weststeijn, Arthur (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Metaforms ; v. 12.
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Table of Contents:
  • Renaissance historicism and the model of Rome in Florentine historiography / Jacques Bos
  • The Roman republic as a constitutional order in the Italian Renaissance / Benjamin Straumann
  • Commonwealths for preservation and increase: ancient Rome in Venice and the Dutch republic / Arthur Weststeijn
  • Early modern Greek histories and Republican political thought / William Stenhouse
  • A classical confederacy: the example of the Achaean league in the seventeenth-century Dutch republic / Jaap Nieuwstraten
  • From failed republic to polite polis: ancient Athens in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England / Christine Zabel
  • Painting Plutarch: images of Sparta in the Dutch republic and Enlightenment France / Wessel Krul
  • Against democracy: Dutch eighteenth-century critics of ancient and modern popular government / Wyger Velema
  • The Hebrew republic in sixteenth-century political debate: the struggle for jurisdiction / Guido Bartolucci
  • The Hebrew republic in Dutch political thought, c. 1650-1675 / RenĂ© Koekkoek
  • The Helvetians as ancestors and Brutus as a model: the classical past in the early modern Swiss confederation / Thomas Maissen
  • Classical models in early modern Poland-Lithuania / Tomasz Gromelski
  • America's antiquities: the ancient past in the creation of the American republic / Eran Shalev.