A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth
to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of
transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is
intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and
a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the
interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an
outline account of all the principal texts of the period,
discussing in turn the chief political writings of Dante,
Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more, Luther and
Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he also
examines a very large number of lesser writers in order to explain
the general social and intellectual context in which these leading
theorists worked. He thus presents the history not as a procession
of ''classic texts'' but are more readily intelligible. He traces by
this means the gradual emergence of the vocabulary of modern
political thought, and in particular the crucial concept of the
State. We are given an insight into the actual processes of the
formation of ideologies and into some of the linkages between
political theory and practice. Professor Skinner has been awarded
the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought,
History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at
http:www.balzan.itNews_eng.aspx?ID=2474
目錄：
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on the text
Part I. The origins of the Renaissance
1. The ideal of liberty
2. Rhetoric and liberty
3. Scholasticism and liberty
Part II. The Italian Renaissance
4. The Florentine renaissance
5. The age of princes
6. The survival of republican values
Part II. The Northern Renaissance
7. The diffusion of humanist scholarship
8. The reception of humanist political thought
9. The humanist critique of humanism; Bibliography of primary
sources
Bibliography of secondary sources
Index
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