Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State - Volume Five, Modern Origins, Developments, and Perspectives against the Background of Machiavellism, Book I: Pre-Modern Machiavellism

The first book of the fifth volume treats the Background of Machiavellism in sixteenth-century Europe. The focal point is Niccolo Machiavelli's reputed modernistic Machiavellism and statism, in relation to that of Jean Bodin, King Henry VIII, and Giovann Botero.

Machiavelli, even more than Bodin, has usually been considered crucial background to the development of modern state theory in seminal later theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, Hegel, and Savigny who promoted the institutions of modern nation-states. His revolutionary ideas have long been deemed paradigmatic for later thought and activity concerning the state. This book will be of interest to historians, to students of the history of ideas, and to legal and constitutional historians.

List of contents

Introduction
"Machiavellism" and "Statism" in Machiavelli Historiography
Reconsidering Machiavelli Historiography
Reconsidering Contextual Historiography
"Machiavellism" and "Statism" in Machiavelli's Major Political Works
"Machiavellism" and "Statism" in Botero, Bodin, and Henry VIII
Sources for the Prince Reexamined
Contexts of Other Works Reexamined
Machiavelli and the Medici Reexamined: Essays in Comparative Chronology
Annexes: (Machiavelli, Florentine Background)
Machiavelli's Exhortatio as Partly Patterned after Ficino's Exhortatio
Machiavelli's Contacts with Michelangelo and Ficino as Evidenced by Buonaccorsi
Machiavelli's Florentine Government in Perspective: Judicial-Jurisdictional vs. Legislative Sovereignty

About the author

A. London Fell, PhD, has taught history and political science at New York University and Fordham University.

Product details

• Authors: A. London Fell, Fell A. London
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.1993
• EAN: 9780275939755
• ISBN: 978-0-275-93975-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Weight: 765 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; History of Ideas, Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Historiography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, world history, Political science & theory, Historiography, Political science and theory, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Central / national / federal government, Central government