Visions of Politics : Volume 2, Renaissance Virtues

by Skinner, Quentin

• ISBN13: 9780511038662
• ISBN10: 0511038666
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-08-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the political thought of the Italian renaissance, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474

Table of Contents

Plates	p. vii
General Preface	p. ix
Full Contents: Volumes 1-3	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Conventions	p. xvii
Introduction: the Reality of the Renaissance	p. 1
The Rediscovery of Republican Values	p. 10
Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Portrayal of Virtuous Government	p. 39
Ambrogio Lorenzetti on the Power and Glory of Republics	p. 93
Republican Virtues in an Age of Princes	p. 118
Machiavelli on Virtù and the Maintenance of Liberty	p. 160
The Idea of Negative Liberty: Machiavellian and Modern Perspectives	p. 186
Thomas More's Utopia and the Virtue of True Nobility	p. 213
Humanism, Scholasticism and Popular Sovereignty	p. 245
Moral Ambiguity and the Renaissance Art of Eloquence	p. 264
John Milton and the Politics of Slavery	p. 286
Classical Liberty, Renaissance Translation and the English Civil War	p. 308
Augustan Party Politics and Renaissance Constitutional Thought	p. 344
From the State of Princes to the Person of the State	p. 368
Bibliographies	p. 414
Index	p. 451
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