These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European republican traditions. Volume I looks at anti-monarchism in Europe, humanist theories of citizenship and the constitutional nature of the republic. Volume II is devoted to the study of key republican values —liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. It also addresses the role of women and relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society.
Introduction Quentin Skinner; Part I. The Rejection of Monarchy: 1. 'That a republic is better than a monarchy': anti-monarchism in Early Modern Dutch political thought Wyger Velema; 2. Anti-monarchism in English republicanism Martin Dzelzainis; 3. Anti-monarchism in Polish republicanism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz; 4. Classical republicanism in seventeenth-century England and the Netherlands Jonathan Scott; Part II. The Republican Citizen: 5. Citizenship and republicanism in Elizabethan England Markku Peltonen; 6. Republican citizenship and civic humanism in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands (1477–1556) Karin Tilmans; 7. Civic humanism and republican citizenship in early modern Germany Robert von Friedeburg; 8. Civic humanism and republican citizenship in the Polish renaissance Edward Opalinski; Part III. The Republican Constitution: 9. From the crisis of civil culture to the republic of Naples in 1647 Ivo Comparato; 10. Aristotelians, Monarchomachs and Republicans: sovereignty and Respublica Mixta in Dutch and German, 1580–1650 Martin van Gelderen; 11. Natural Law and Respublica Mixta: Dutch and German political discourses around 1700 Hans Erich Bodeker; 12. Classical foundational myths of European Republicanism: the Jewish Commonwealth Lea Campos Boralevi; 13. Republican politics in Early Modern Spain: the Castilian and the Catalano-Aragonese Traditions Xavier Gil; 14. The idea of a Republican constitution in Old Regime France Kent Wright; 15. Republicanism, regicide and republic: the English experience Blair Worden; Index.
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These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European republican traditions. Volume I looks at anti-monarchism in Europe, humanist theories of citizenship and the constitutional nature of the republic. Volume II is devoted to the study of key republican values —liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. ...