{"product_id":"ancient-models-in-the-early-modern-republican-imagination-9789004351370","title":"Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAncient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination, edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective. While most scholars agree on the importance of the classical world to early modern republican theorists, its role is all too often described in rather abstract and general terms such as “classical republicanism” or the “neo-roman theory of free states”. The contributions to this volume propose a different approach and all focus on the specific ways in which ancient republics such as Rome, Athens, Sparta, and the Hebrew Republic served as models for early modern republican thought. The result is a novel interpretation of the impact of antiquity on early modern republicanism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations List of Contributors  Introduction: Classical Republicanism and Ancient Republican Models  Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn 1 Renaissance Historicism and the Model of Rome in Florentine Historiography  Jacques Bos 2 The Roman Republic as a Constitutional Order in the Italian Renaissance  Benjamin Straumann 3 Commonwealths for Preservation and Increase: Ancient Rome in Venice and the Dutch Republic  Arthur Weststeijn 4 Early Modern Greek Histories and Republican Political Thought  William Stenhouse 5 A Classical Confederacy: The Example of the Achaean League in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic  Jaap Nieuwstraten 6 From Failed Republic to Polite Polis: Ancient Athens in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England  Christine Zabel 7 Painting Plutarch. Images of Sparta in the Dutch Republic and Enlightenment France  Wessel Krul 8 Against Democracy: Dutch Eighteenth-Century Critics of Ancient and Modern Popular Government  Wyger Velema 9 The Hebrew Republic in Sixteenth-Century Political Debate: The Struggle for Jurisdiction  Guido Bartolucci 10 The Hebrew Republic in Dutch Political Thought, c. 1650–1675  René Koekkoek 11 The Helvetians as Ancestors and Brutus as a Model: The Classical Past in the Early Modern Swiss Confederation  Thomas Maissen 12 Classical Models in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania  Tomasz Gromelski 13 America’s Antiquities: The Ancient Past in the Creation of the American Republic  Eran Shalev  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210736165207,"sku":"9789004351370","price":128.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ancient-models-in-the-early-modern-republican-imagination-9789004351370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}