European Political Thought 1450-1700 : Religion, Law and Philosophy

by Howell Lloyd, Glenn Burgess and Simon Hodson

• ISBN13: 9780300112665
• ISBN10: 0300112661
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2008-03-04
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

The collective, integrated work of fourteen distinguished historians, this book explores political thinking in Europe from the Renaissance to the early Enlightenment. European thinkers of the period may seem to have inherited a common vocabulary and a set of concepts, yet their concerns and their expression of those concerns were conditioned by the particular contexts in which they formulated and refined their ideas. The book therefore investigates the very possibility of a European political identity and how it was mediated and expressed across the continent. The only fully comprehensive account of European political thought in the early modern period, the book pays due regard to Hungary, Poland-Lithuania, the Scandinavian kingdoms, the realm of Eastern Orthodoxy, and the political thought of Islam.

Author Biography

Howell A. Lloyd is emeritus professor of history, Glenn Burgess is professor of early modern history, and Simon Hodson is research associate and project manager, all at the University of Hull.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Background	p. 9
Italy	p. 55
The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation	p. 102
Hungary	p. 176
Poland-Lithuania	p. 208
The Ottoman Empire and Morocco	p. 243
Muscovy	p. 267
Scandinavia	p. 300
England and Scotland	p. 332
The Low Countries	p. 376
Spain and Portugal	p. 416
France	p. 458
Conclusion	p. 498
Notes	p. 510
Consolidated Bibliography	p. 553
Index	p. 629
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