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This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought.
Recent scholarship on medieval and Renaissance political thought is witness to tectonic movements. These involve quiet, yet considerable, re-evaluations of key thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and Machiavelli, as well as the string of lesser known "political thinkers" who wrote in western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Reformation. Taking stock of thirty years of developments, this volume demonstrates the contemporary vibrancy of the history of medieval and Renaissance political thought. By both celebrating and challenging the perspectives of a generation of scholars, notably Cary J. Nederman, it offers refreshing new assessments. The book re-introduces the history of western political thought in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the wider disciplines of History and Political Science. Recent historiographical debates have revolutionized discussion of whether or not there was an "Aristotelian revolution" in the thirteenth century. Thinkers such as Machiavelli and Marsilius of Padua are read in new ways; less well-known texts, such as the Irish On the Twelve Abuses of the Age, offer new perspectives. Further, the collection argues that medieval political ideas contain important lessons for the study of concepts of contemporary interest such as toleration.
The volume is an ideal resource for both students and scholars interested in medieval and Renaissance history as well as the history of political thought.
Contents
1. Medieval & Renaissance Political Thought: Past, Present, ... and Future? An Essay.
Chris Jones & Takashi Shogimen
2. Medieval Ideas and the Ethics of Listening.
Clare Monagle
Part 1: Historiographical Problems
3. The Jewish Reinterpretation of the Hebrew Prophet: From Medieval Prophet-Philosopher to Renaissance Prophet-Statesman.
Gary Remer
4. The Scientist of Politics? The Typology of Princedoms in The Prince and Machiavelli's Ambition as a Theorist of Human Action.
Bee Yun
5. The Twelve Abuses of the Age: Ethical and Political Theory in Early Medieval Ireland and its Influence.
Constant J. Mews
Part 2: Fresh Interpretations
6. The Mirror Compiled: Roger Waltham's Compendium morale and Cary Nederman's Medieval English Tradition of Political Thought.
Charles F. Briggs
7. Bonum commune and its Uses in Political Discourse at the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century.
Roberto Lambertini
8. Machiavelli's Representation of the People in the Ciompi Revolt.
Benedetto Fontana
Part 3: New Debates
9. Classical Republicanism in the Age of Machiavelli.
Paul A. Rahe
10. A Medieval Scholastic Job Description: Diversi sed non adversi.
Marcia L. Colish
11. Heresy and Toleration in the Early Fourteenth Century: Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham Reconsidered.
Takashi Shogimen
12. Consent, Power, and the Political Community: Communal versus Individual "Rights" in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.
Jason Taliadoros
Part 4: Responses
13. The Study of Political Texts and Texts of Political Thought: A Methodological Afterword.
Frédérique Lachaud
14. Some Reflections on the Future(s) of Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought.
Cary J. Nederman
