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Justus Lipsius: On Constancy by Justus Lipsius 9781904675150
Booksplease Price: £31.16Justus Lipsius' De Constantia (1584) is one of the most important and interesting of sixteenth century Humanist texts. A dialogue in two books, conceived as a philosophical consolation for those... -
Justus Lipsius, Monita et exempla politica / Political Admonitions and Examples: Edited with Translation, Commentary and Introduction by Jan Papy 9789462703056
Booksplease Price: £99.89In 17th-century intellectual life, the ideas of the Renaissance humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) were omnipresent. The publication of his Politica in 1589 had made Lipsius's name as an original... -
Ethics and the Orator: The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality by Gary A. Remer
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.30For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In Ethics and the Orator, Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering... -
Antwerp and the Golden Age: Culture, Conflict and Commerce by Richard Willmott 9781916846678
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.72A remarkable painting by the Antwerp painter Maerten de Vos, 'Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites', shows wealthy merchants, artists and poets, a ground-breaking botanist, a... -
Machiavellism: The Doctrine of Raison d'Etat and Its Place in Modern History Friedrich Meinecke 9781560009702
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Here is a study, by a recognized master in the field of intellectual history, of the challenge put by Machiavelli to the idea that there is a universal moral law governing human behavior. Should the... -
The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama by Donovan Sherman 9780810144149
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76The Philosopher's Toothache proposes that early modern Stoicism constituted a radical mode of performance. Stoicism-with its focus on bodily sensation, imagined spectatorship, and daily mental and... -
The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition John Sellars 9781138574106
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34The ancient philosophy of stoicism has been a crucial and formative influence on the development of Western thought since its inception through to the present day. It is not only an important area of... -
Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan 9780691167879
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.15One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.35From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about... -
Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.49A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that... -
Stoics and Neostoics: Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius by Mark P. O. Morford 9780691608860
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In a vivid re-creation of late sixteenth-century Flemish intellectual life, Mark Morford explores the intertwined careers of one of the period's most influential thinkers and one of its most original... -
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen 9780691211510
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuriesThe Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and... -
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.12A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780691210148
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
Francois Hotman: A Revolutionary's Ordeal by Donald R. Kelley 9780691619293
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07The lifetime of Francois Hotman (1524-1590) was one of the most tumultuous periods in European history. Donald R. Kelley shows how this protege of Calvin and agent of many of the great Protestant... -
Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance by William McCuaig
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07William McCuaig explores the intellectual turbulence of the late Italian Renaissance through a full examination of the work of one scholar--the humanist Carlo Sigonio (1523-84), whose insistence on... -
The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe by Robert Bireley 9781469602219
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.31Bireley explores the anti-Machavellian tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the writers who cultivated it, including Giovanni Botero and Justus Lipsius. The tradition produced... -
Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment: Atheist's Progress by Eric MacPhail
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies... -
The The Family of Love Alastair Hamilton 9780227180471
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £47.39Over forty years after its original publication, Alastair Hamilton has revised and updated his comprehensive study of the heterodox movement known as the Family of Love. Part of the Radical... -
The The Family of Love by Alastair Hamilton 9780227180396
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £18.52Over forty years after its original publication, Alastair Hamilton has revised and updated his comprehensive study of the heterodox movement known as the Family of Love. Part of the Radical... -
Erudite Eyes: Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) by Tine Luk Meganck 9789004429017
Booksplease Price: £71.29Erudite Eyes explores the network of the Antwerp cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), a veritable trading zone of art and erudition. Populated by such luminaries as Pieter Bruegel, Joris... -
Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition by Torrey James Luce 9780691602219
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth... -
A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 by Peter Mack 9780199679997
Booksplease Price: £57.64This is the first comprehensive History of Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric, a training in writing and delivering speeches, was a fundamental part of renaissance culture and education. It is concerned... -
Cleophilus’ De coetu poetarum and Iustus Lipsius’ Somnium: Dreaming of the Literary Tradition Dr. Gesine Manuwald 9781350468740
Booksplease Price: £85.65Providing the first edited text, translation and commentary of two Renaissance dream-narrative satires, this edition sheds light on the period's literary history and reception of classical texts... -
The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Natural Philosophy and Sacramental Theology by Alice Brooke 9780198816829
Booksplease Price: £109.82Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America.The autos sacramentales, or Eucharistic plays are some of her least studied,... -
Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing Catherine H. Lusheck 9780367334086
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) in light of early modern traditions of... -
Concepts of Politics in Modern Hungarian Thought Dr Ferenc Hörcher 9781350513938
Booksplease Price: £85.65This book presents an overview of the concepts of 'politics' and of 'the political' in Hungary since 1526. Through a detailed methodological introduction and eleven case studies, Concepts of Politics... -
Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam by Anne O. Albert
Booksplease Price: £52.80Finalist for Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought 2023. This book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile, and community that emerged at a key moment in... -
Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau by Christopher Brooke 9780691152080
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.26Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to... -
Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation by Jan Machielsen 9780197265802
Booksplease Price: £97.60If the Jesuit Martin Delrio (1551-1608) is remembered at all today, it is for his Disquisitiones magicae (1599-1600), a voluminous tome on witchcraft and superstition which was reprinted numerous... -
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One: The Patron Author by Warren Boutcher
Booksplease Price: £31.43This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from... -
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two: The Reader-Writer by Warren Boutcher
Booksplease Price: £31.43This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from...