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Index
Cover Page
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface: A Précis of the Argument
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Poetry and the Public Domain
After the Massacre, St. Bartholomew’s Day, 1572
Philippist Prayers and Poetry in Public Places
A “more ordinary opening”: Introducing the Defence
1 “Famous preachers and teachers”: Mediating the Cause
Taking Form: Philippist Representations of Philip Melanchthon
Hubert Languet and the Liberal Communication of Duties
2 The “noblest scope”: Reading, Writing, and Early Modern Poetics
Sidney’s Poetics and the Question of Allegory
The Scope of Reading: Aristotle and Accommodation
Reforming Hermeneutics: Reading and Writing among the Philippists
The Scope of Sidney’s Golden World Poetics
3 “The enjoying of his own divine essence”: Poetry and Piety
Why in the Church of God?
“Ung Chemin du Moderation”: Philippe Duplessis-Mornay and Piety’s Public Scope
Piety and the Golden World: Enter Calvin (Again)
Melanchthon and the Culture Wars
Philippism and the Defence: Including the Kinds of Poetry
Pious Conclusions
4 “Captived to the truth of a foolish world”: Poetry and the Politics of Tyranny
Exemplary Tyrants and Aesthetic Barbarians
Natural Law and the Politics of Self-Defense
Natural Law and the Politics of Intellectualism
Sidney’s Cosmopology and the Poetics of Liberation
Freeing the Defence (Post-Soviet Farm Culture)
Conclusion: Reproducing Cyrus: The Defence of Poesy and a Cosmopolitan Culture of Books
The Train to Oblivion: Jean Bodin and the Golden Age Gone
Reforming Cyrus: Camerarius’s Cyropaedia and Philippist Politics
Cyrus the Liberator: The Hero in the Garden
Select Bibliography
Index
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