On the Government of Rulers: De Regimine Principum (The Middle Ages Series)  -  Ptolemy of Lucca

KORTE INHOUD

Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early modern period. He was the first to attack kingship as despotism and to draw parallels between ancient Greek models of mixed constitution and the Roman Republic, biblical rule, the Church, and medieval government.

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1997 Uitgever: University Of Pennsylvania Press 320 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0812233700 ISBN-13: 9780812233704