Handbook Political Theory.pdf

extremes into an organic and undiVerentiated whole. A person will not act courageously by combining rashness and cowardice. A mi ...

belong to no one but him. At the same time, by engaging a person with his local and observable world of contingency and particul ...

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Rowe,C. and Schofield,M. (eds.), in association with S. Harrison and M. Lane 2000 .The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Poli ...

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the government of consuls, senate, and tribunes which ruled Rome until Augustus instituted the principate after the Battle of Ac ...

preoccupied Roman writers to a remarkable degree, and the surviving Latin treatises and histories exhibit a startling unanimity ...

whose hands were the treasury, the provinces, public oYces, glory and triumphs.... The generals divided the spoils of war with a ...

The most forceful Roman opponent of the agrarian movement was, however, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero lays the groundwork for hi ...

under the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire during the High Middle Ages. By the late twelfth century, these city-states had ev ...

[Florence’s] founder is the Roman people, conqueror and master of the globe... what a beginning this is, for the Florentine race ...

of rulership, in turn, ensures that injustice is banished from the city. As Bruni puts it, ‘‘every care is taken so that justice ...

particular good but the common good that makes cities great. And without doubt this common good is not observed if not in republ ...

tame and restrain each other. If one or the other were allowed to predomin- ate, the result would be a return to the political c ...

their citizens poor.’’ Machiavelli makes clear that he approves of legal meas- ures designed to ensure an equal and moderate dis ...

Tudor monarchy, and it emerged out of an early sixteenth-century ‘‘culture war’’ over the study of Greek. The Dutch humanist Era ...

All of this conspicuous Hellenism provides a powerful backdrop for More’s thoroughgoing subversion of the Roman republican tradi ...