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Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner
Category: Fiction | Series: Clarendon Lectures in English
Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing some of the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays - Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Ca ...Show more
Liberty Before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner
Category: History | Series: Canto Classics
This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectu ...Show more
Locke: Two Treatises of Government by John Locke; Peter Laslett (Editor); Quentin Skinner (Contribution by); Raymond Geuss (Contribution by)
Category: Culture | Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Ser.
Peter Laslett's acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as a classic text in the history of ideas.
MACHIAVELLI A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by SKINNER QUENTIN
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli'sadult life, ...Show more
The City of God Against the Pagans by R. W. Dyson (Editor); Saint Augustine; Raymond Geuss (Contribution by); Quentin. Skinner (Contribution by)
Category: Religion | Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Ser.
This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited togeth ...Show more
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