Republicanism : a shared European heritage. Vol. 1, Republicanism and constitutionalism in early modern Europe

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents of Volume I......Page 7
Contents of Volume II......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
Part I The Rejection of Monarchy......Page 21
1 ‘That a Republic is Better than a Monarchy’: Anti-monarchism in Early Modern Dutch Political Thought......Page 23
I. True Liberty and Anti-monarchism: De la Court......Page 26
II. Eighteenth-century Anti-monarchism: De Beaufort......Page 33
III. Anti-monarchism and Patriot Republicanism......Page 38
2 Anti-monarchism in English Republicanism......Page 41
3 Anti-monarchism in Polish Republicanism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries......Page 57
I. Introduction......Page 75
II. Political Language......Page 76
III. Classical Republicanism......Page 79
IV. Harrington’s Science of Peace......Page 86
V. Spinoza’s Science of Reason......Page 90
VI. Conclusion......Page 94
Part II The Republican Citizen......Page 97
I......Page 99
II......Page 101
III......Page 107
IV......Page 117
6 Republican Citizenship and Civic Humanism in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands (1477–1566)......Page 121
I. The Emergence of the Citizen......Page 125
II. The Republican Citizen Established: Civic Humanism in the Southern Netherlands......Page 129
III. Prelude to the Dutch Republic?......Page 138
I......Page 141
II......Page 145
III......Page 150
IV......Page 154
V......Page 157
8 Civic Humanism and Republican Citizenship in the Polish Renaissance......Page 161
Part III The Republican Constitution......Page 181
9 From the Crisis of Civil Culture to the Neapolitan Republic of 1647: Republicanism in Italy between the Sixteenth and…......Page 183
I. In Defence of Civil Life......Page 184
II. Republican Political Prudence......Page 187
III Cebà and the Restoration of ‘Civil Virtue’......Page 189
IV ‘Civil’ Liberty in Boccalini......Page 191
V. Zuccolo, Settala and Republican Reason of State......Page 193
VI. Civitas between memory and political model......Page 195
VII. European Republics......Page 201
VIII. Naples andthe Search for a Republican Constitution......Page 204
I. Introduction......Page 209
II. Sovereignty and respublica mixta in Dutch and German politica......Page 213
III. Conclusions......Page 230
I......Page 233
II......Page 236
III......Page 243
IV......Page 251
V......Page 255
VI......Page 259
12 Classical Foundational Myths of European Republicanism: The Jewish Commonwealth......Page 261
13 Republican Politics in Early Modern Spain: The Castilian and Catalano-Aragonese Traditions......Page 277
I......Page 279
II......Page 285
III......Page 288
IV......Page 293
V......Page 299
14 The Idea of a Republican Constitution in Old Régime France......Page 303
15 Republicanism, Regicide and Republic: The English Experience......Page 321
Primary Sources......Page 343
Secondary Literature......Page 367
Contributors......Page 399
Index of Names of Persons......Page 401
Index of Subjects......Page 421