Freedom and the Construction of Europe

List of contents

Introduction Martin van Gelderen; Part I. Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty: 1. Freedom and apocalyptic thinking in early modern Lutheranism Thomas Kaufmann; 2. Arminian trouble: Calvinist debates on freedom Martin van Gelderen; 3. Libertas Ecclesiae in post-tridentine debates on church and state Jaska Kainulainen; 4. Ecclesiastical independence and the freedom of consent Polly Ha; 5. Freedom, virtue and Socinian heterodoxy Sarah Mortimer; 6. From Selden to Mendelssohn: Hebraism and religious freedom Eric Nelson; 7. Natural religion: Pufendorf and Locke on the edge of freedom and reason Hannah Dawson; 8. Freedom of conscience, political liberty and the foundations of liberalism Tim Stanton; Part II. Liberty and Liberties in Constitutional Thought: 9. The liberty of Italian city states Serena Ferente; 10. Free and unfree states in Machiavelli's political philosophy Peter Stacey; 11. Discourses on liberty in early modern Ragusa Lovro Kun¿evic; 12. Liberty and Liberties in early modern Poland-Lithuania Thomasz Gromelski; 13. Liberty and liberties in Europe's federal republics Thomas Maissen; 14. Roman law, German liberties and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire Daniel Lee; 15. The language of liberty in early modern Hungarian political debate Márton Zászkaliczky; 16. The language of liberty in Calvinist political thought John Coffey; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects.

Summary

An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and constitutional liberties, debates about the relationship between free persons and free states, and freedom as the ideal of citizenship.

Product details

• Assisted by: Martin Van Gelderen (Editor), Quentin Skinner (Editor), Skinner Quentin (Editor), Martin van Gelderen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108817776
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81777-6
• Dimensions: 245 mm x 170 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 740 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Freedom and the Construction of Europe 2 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, Europe, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700