Tombs looks at France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation, subjecting every aspect of the period to close scrutiny.
Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism through an intimate portrait of the lives of three English republicans - Edmund Ludlow, Henry Neville, and Algernon Sidney - who went into exile in Europe after the Restoration.
"The restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite Charles II's Declaration of Breda, in which he had promised to forgive those who had acted against his father and the monarchy during the Civil War and Interregnum period, …
"The restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite Charles II's Declaration of Breda, in which he had promised to forgive those who had acted against his father and the monarchy during the Civil War and Interregnum period, …
"An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war. In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first cen…
Introduction -- Res publica of letters -- Engaged philosophy -- Philosophy after Pharsalus -- The invention of Rome -- Coopting the cosmos -- Conclusion. "An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war. In T…
"An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war. In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first cen…
"An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war. In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first cen…
