Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe

Cambridge University Press, 7/14/2005
EAN 9780521672351, ISBN10: 052167235X

Paperback, 434 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European traditions. Volume I focuses on the importance of anti-monarchism in Europe and analyses the relationship between citizenship and civic humanism, concluding with studies of the relationship between constitutionalism and republicanism in the period between 1500 and 1800. Volume II, first published in 2002, is devoted to the study of key republican values such as liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. This volume also addresses the role of women in European republican traditions, and contains a number of in-depth studies of the relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society in early modern Europe.

Introduction Quentin Skinner
Part I. The Rejection of Monarchy
1. 'That a republic is better than a monarchy'
anti-monarchism in Early Modern Dutch political thought Wyger Velema
2. Anti-monarchism in English republicanism Martin Dzelzainis
3. Anti-monarchism in Polish republicanism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz
4. Classical republicanism in seventeenth-century England and the Netherlands Jonathan Scott
Part II. The Republican Citizen
5. Citizenship and republicanism in Elizabethan England Markku Peltonen
6. Republican citizenship and civic humanism in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands (1477–1556) Karin Tilmans
7. Civic humanism and republican citizenship in early modern Germany Robert von Friedeburg
8. Civic humanism and republican citizenship in the Polish renaissance Edward Opalinski
Part III. The Republican Constitution
9. From the crisis of civil culture to the republic of Naples in 1647 Ivo Comparato
10. Aristotelians, Monarchomachs and Republicans
sovereignty and Respublica Mixta in Dutch and German, 1580–1650 Martin van Gelderen
11. Natural Law and Respublica Mixta
Dutch and German political discourses around 1700 Hans Erich Bodeker
12. Classical foundational myths of European Republicanism
the Jewish Commonwealth Lea Campos Boralevi
13. Republican politics in Early Modern Spain
the Castilian and the Catalano-Aragonese Traditions Xavier Gil
14. The idea of a Republican constitution in Old Regime France Kent Wright
15. Republicanism, regicide and republic
the English experience Blair Worden
Index.