Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination.

Intro -- Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Classical Republicanism and Ancient Republican Models -- 1 Renaissance Historicism and the Model of Rome in Florentine Historiography -- 2 The Roman Republic as a Constitutional Order in the Italian Renaissance -- 3 Commonwealths for Preservation and Increase: Ancient Rome in Venice and the Dutch Republic -- 4 Early Modern Greek Histories and Republican Political Thought -- 5 A Classical Confederacy: The Example of the Achaean League in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic -- 6 From Failed Republic to Polite Polis: Ancient Athens in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England -- 7 Painting Plutarch. Images of Sparta in the Dutch Republic and Enlightenment France -- 8 Against Democracy: Dutch Eighteenth-Century Critics of Ancient and Modern Popular Government -- 9 The Hebrew Republic in Sixteenth-Century Political Debate: The Struggle for Jurisdiction -- 10 The Hebrew Republic in Dutch Political Thought, c. 1650-1675 -- 11 The Helvetians as Ancestors and Brutus as a Model: The Classical Past in the Early Modern Swiss Confederation -- 12 Classical Models in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania -- 13 America's Antiquities: The Ancient Past in the Creation of the American Republic -- Index.

Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination offers a new approach to the study of the classical dimensions of early modern republican thought by analysing its specific and concrete uses of ancient republican models.

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