Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

The sixth and final volume in an acclaimed series situating Edward Gibbon in a series of contexts in eighteenth-century European history.

A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

This book is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics during Africa''s decolonization.

This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance.

This book shows how liberal education taught Tudor and Stuart monarchs to wield pens like swords and transformed political culture in early modern Britain.

Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.

The first full examination of the ''protectionist turn'' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relations between the key elements of Spinoza''s philosophy and the Stoics.

This book analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic.

The first full-length historical study of the intellectual origins and institutional context of the nineteenth-century German thinker Hermann Lotze.

This book examines the surprising uses, and abuses, of the classical world in contemporary popular media.

This book surveys royal marriage cases to explore how popes dealt with the marriage problems of kings, especially dissolutions and dispensations.

This richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical.

An original interpretation of the early Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire.

This book offers the first cultural history of translation in Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600–1868.

A comparative intellectual history of the political thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, two influential and controversial German-Jewish-American political philosophers.

This book offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius'' highly influential doctrine of natural law and natural rights.

This volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.

This book investigates the emergence and development of a distinct concept of self-awareness in pre-modern Islamic philosophy.

This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant''s lectures on ethics.

Featuring new, original essays on Fear and Trembling, this collection casts new interpretive light on Kierkegaard''s most influential work.

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant''s lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.

The first book-length study of Sartre as philosopher of the imaginary and the development of his philosophical, literary, aesthetic and political thought.

The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for future scholarship.

This study of Edward Coke''s legal thought reinterprets the political and legal thought of early Stuart England.

Challenging scholarly emphasis on French Revolutionary violence, this book instead examines the prevalence of peaceful, democratic methods in Parisian protest.

This book explores the ways in which the Jewish backgrounds of leading Frankfurt School Critical Theorists shaped their lives, work, and ideas.

This book provides a compelling and incisive portrait of James Madison, the scholar and political philosopher.

This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccolò Machiavelli''s place within it.

A history of melancholy and its significance in Western history and culture.

Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.

Rist explores how and why Augustine''s moral framework became distorted with time and proposes a return to a revitalized version of his thought.

Romantic Reformers is an intellectual history of the American antislavery movement in the 1850s and early 1860s.

This book focuses on changing political thought in twentieth-century Brazil.

Using an integrated philosophical and historical approach, this book explores the fundamental shift in understandings of space in the scientific revolution.

This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy the legitimacy and survival of our political communities.

This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War and the Holocaust.

This book examines ''informal'' politics, such as gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more ''formal'' politics of assembly and courts.

This is the first full-length biography of Immanuel Kant in more than fifty years.