Recenze Humanism and Empire

Humanism and Empire extinguishes permanently the myth of an intrinsic link between early Renaissance humanism and Italian civic republicanism that pervades scholarship today. Combining meticulous readings of key political texts from late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy with a wealth of historical background about the era's cross-cutting systems of power, Alexander Lee demonstrates both how and why the ideal of universal empire retained such attraction at a time when the actual authority of the Roman Emperor was in steep decline. This book transforms forever the approach scholars must take to the study of late medieval and early modern political thought in Italy as well as throughout the rest of Europe. Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University schovat popis