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Spenser and the Historical Revolution: Briton Moniments and the Problem of Roman Britain [PDF]

, 1996
Curran argues that, since Roman Britain is a key to understanding the historiographical debates of Edmund Spenser\u27s time, the Roman Britain section of Briton Moniments in The Faerie Queene needs to be examined.
Curran, John E., Jr.
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Politeness, “Humanitas” and Imperialism. A Reflection by Montesquieu (“EL”, XIX, 27) and Tacitus’ “Agricola”

Montesquieu.it, 2020
A reflection by Montesquieu on the relationship between absolutism, idleness and politeness (“EL” XIX, 27) is connected, through a note later deleted in the manuscript, to chap.
Sergio Audano
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« L’ombre de Brutus » : l’action politique de Gaston d’Orléans et les valeurs de « l’ancienne Rome »

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2021
True to the memorialists and satirists of the seventeenth century, contemporary historiography generally assesses Gaston d’Orléans’s political activities of the 1630s with reference to ‘ancient Rome’s’ republican values, celebrated by Balzac and ...
Delphine Amstutz
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.
Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Nationhood and Constitutionalism in the Dutch Republic: An Examination of Grotius' Antiquity of the Batavian Republic [PDF]

, 2017
The emphasis in contemporary democratic theory and in the history of political thought on the ‘natural rights’ theory of popular sovereignty of Locke, precursors of which are found in the work of Hugo Grotius and others, obscures
Alexander-Davey, Ethan
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Vondel on translation [PDF]

, 1985
This essay attempts to gain insight into seventeenth-century conceptions of literary translation in the Low Countries by looking at one of its central figures, Joost van den Vondel.
Hermans, T
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Sir Walter Ralegh and the Art of War by Sea: Military Humanism and the Uses of the Early Modern Soldier‐Scholar

History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 461-487, December 2024.
Abstract This article establishes the intellectual origins and underpinnings of the early modern soldier‐scholar in order to better understand the military humanist tradition within which Sir Walter Ralegh's writings on naval warfare and logistics were conceived and composed. By locating Ralegh within this tradition, the article provides a new critical
MATTHEW WOODCOCK
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«Pugnam fugientum more petebant». Flaminius' march to Lake Trasimene between epic and historiography

Griseldaonline
This paper deals with a passage from Silius Italicus’ Punica (v 28-33): Flaminius’ army marches towards Lake Trasimene disregarding the divisions between the troops and the usual order of march.
Luigi Maria Guerci
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Who are Nietzsche's slaves?

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1116-1129, December 2024.
Abstract This paper argues that Nietzsche is deliberately imprecise in his characterization of what he calls the slave revolt in morality. In particular, none of the people or groups he nominates as instigators of the slave revolt, namely, Jewish priests, the Jewish people, the prophets, Jesus, and Paul, were literally slaves.
Ken Gemes
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La Renaissance de Tacite: Commenter les Histoires et les Annales au XVIe siècle

Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Review of Kevin Bovier, La Renaissance de Tacite. Commenter les Histoires et les Annales au XVIe siècle, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2022, reviewed by Lorenzo ...
Lorenzo Paoli
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