Jean Bodin, ''This Pre-Eminent Man of France'' - An Intellectual Biography

Zusatztext [A] splendid introduction at a high level for graduate students and professionals... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Married with five children, Howell A. Lloyd is a graduate of the universities of Wales and Oxford. In the course of a career which culminated in ten years' service as pro-vice-chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Hull, he has taught and researched an unusually wide variety of historical subjects. His publications - monographs, edited works, and numerous essays - deal with topics in late-medieval and early-modern British and European history that range from social and economic questions to military affairs, from constitutional and governmental structures to political ideas, from mathematics to historiography itself. He is therefore especially well-equipped for the study of the subject of the present book, the prolific and many-sided scholar, Jean Bodin. Klappentext In this new intellectual biography, Howell A. Lloyd presents the first rounded treatment of influential sixteenth-century French thinker, Jean Bodin, examining his life and times, his writings (major and minor), and his ideas in their contemporary context, as well as in that of broader intellectual traditions. Zusammenfassung In this new intellectual biography, Howell A. Lloyd presents the first rounded treatment of influential sixteenth-century French thinker, Jean Bodin, examining his life and times, his writings (major and minor), and his ideas in their contemporary context, as well as in that of broader intellectual traditions.

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• Authors: Howell A. Lloyd, Howell A. (Emeritus Professor of History Lloyd
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2017
• EAN: 9780198800149
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880014-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; History of Ideas, France, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, History - General History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Biography: historical, political and military, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600