[The Foundations of Modern Political Thought 01] • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought · Volume 1, The Renaissance by Skinner, Quentin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the text Part One: The Origins of the Renaissance

1 The ideal of liberty

The city republics and the Empire The city republics and the Papacy

2 Rhetoric and liberty

The rise of the despots The development of the Ars Dictaminis The emergence of humanism The rhetorical defence of liberty

3 Scholasticism and liberty

The reception of scholasticism The scholastic defence of liberty

Part Two: The Italian Renaissance

4 The Florentine Renaissance

The analysis of liberty The recovery of classical values The concept of virtus The powers of the vir virtutis The humanists and the Renaissance

5 The age of princes

The triumph of princely government The humanist ideal of princely government Machiavelli’s critique of humanism

6 The survival of Republican values

The centres of Republicanism The contribution of scholasticism The contribution of humanism The contribution of Machiavelli The end of Republican liberty

Part Three: The Northern Renaissance

7 The diffusion of humanist scholarship

The migration of humanists Humanism and legal scholarship Humanism and biblical scholarship

8 The reception of humanist political thought

The humanists as advisers The injustices of the age The centrality of the virtues The qualities of leadership The role of education

9 The humanist critique of humanism

Humanism and the justification of war Humanism and ‘reason of state’ Utopia and the critique of humanism

Bibliography of primary sources Bibliography of secondary sources Index