Melancholy of Power: Perception of Tyranny in European Political Culture of the 16th Century

ISBN-13: 9783631846957 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 502 str.

Jan Burzynski; Thomas Anessi; Igor Kakolewski

Opis

The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power, traditionally termed from the ancient times as 'tyranny', were presented in 16th century political philosophy, propaganda, and literature in Italy, France, England, Scotland, German countries, and Poland-Lithuania.

Spis treści

Part One. Chapter II. The Machiavellian Moment and the Political Correctness of Erasmus

Part One. Chapter III. Thomas More and Niccolò Machiavelli: Tyrannical Readings of the Renaissance?

Part Two. Chapter I. The Reformation: from Obedience to the Right to Resistance - Tyranny as a Paradigm of Religious Alienation

O autorze

Igor Kakolewski is a Polish historian, professor at the University of Warmia and Mazury and director of the Center of Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research fields are early modern history of Poland-Lithuania and Europe, history of European political philosophy and culture and history of Polish-German relations, and studies in memory culture, museology and pedagogy.