Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State

This book is an intellectual biography of the Venetian historian and theologian Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623). It analyses Sarpi's natural philosophy, religious ideas and political thought and argues that he was a Christian mortalist and a champion of absolutism

About the author

Jaska Kainulainen, Ph.D (2009), European University Institute of Florence, is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, department of history. His principal publications are "Libertas Ecclesiae in post-tridentine debates on church-state relations", in Freedom and the construction of Europe, edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen (Cambridge University Press 2013), "From sense perception to natural affection: Paolo Sarpi's leap of faith", in European Review of History, (2010) vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 5-25 and "Paolo Sarpi and the Colloquium Heptaplomeres", in Beiträge zur Romanistik, band 12, hrsg. Von Karl F. Faltenbacher, Darmstadt 2009, pp. 239-258.

Product details

• Authors: Jaska Kainulainen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2014
• EAN: 9789004261143
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26114-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)