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Francogallia (Paperback, New)
Francois Hotman, Ralph E. Giesey; Translated by J.H.M. Salmon
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R1,734
Discovery Miles 17 340
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For at least two centuries after its first appearance in 1573
Hotman's Francogallia influenced the way in which men regarded the
European past and appraised the validity of political institutions.
The intricate collation of the variorum Latin readings by Professor
Giesey here demonstrates that nearly half the complete work
consists of material added by Hotman to later editions in such a
manner as substantially to modify the argument and balance of the
original Francogallia. This definitive Latin edition contains a
facing English translation by Professor Salmon, and a joint
introduction in which the editors discuss the genesis and
development of the text, which can no longer be regarded as written
in response to the massacre of St Bartholomew. The editors analyse
the discordant elements in Hotman's thought as his Calvinist
background, his fundamentalism in both constitutional and religious
doctrine and his ambivalent attitude to his profession as an
eminent jurist.
The influence of historiography on aspects of political thought in
France, Italy and Germany. In recent years the overlap between
political thought and historiography has changed the boundaries of
intellectual history. Donald Kelley, the longtime editor of The
Journal of the History of Ideas has played a leading part in this
process. These essays by his friends and former students follow in
his footsteps. The collection is divided into three parts: France,
England [six essays], and Italy and Germany [four essays]. Anthony
Grafton and John Salmon provide an introduction, and the volume
concludes with a bibliography of Donald Kelley's many works.
Historians and Ideologues is designed for those with an interest in
the contribution of historiography to political thought, and will
be a timely addition to the growing reaction against the postmodern
scepticism in historiographical research in this field.
Contributors include Ann Blair, Julian Franklin, Kathleen Parrow,
David Harris Sacks, Sarah Hanley, Daniel Woolf, Gordon Schochet,
Joseph Levine, John Pocock, Perez Zagorin, William Connell, Donald
Phillip Verene, and Michael Carhart. Anthony Grafton is a Professor
in the Department of History at Princeton University. John Salmon
is the Marjorie Walter Goodheart Emeritus Professor of History at
Bryn Mawr College.
These essays examine the thought and works of a series of writers
on political thought, religion, historiography and literature, from
the 16th century to the 19th. Throughout, the author is concerned
to situate individual thinkers in the context of their times and,
in many of the essays, to illuminate the links between intellectual
currents in France and England. Particular topics include
Gallicanism, Neostoicism, the historical novel, and
constitutionalism, while the figures dealt with range from Bodin
and Hotman in the Renaissance, to Descartes and La Rochefoucauld in
the Grand Siecle and Condorcet and Diderot in the Enlightenment.
Less familiar figures include the Oxford historian, Degory Wheare,
and the French constitutional theorist, Henrion de Pansey. Among
the topics treated in the Romantic era are comparisons between the
French and English revolutions, and the French obsession with
Oliver Cromwell.
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