![]() | Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton Subjects: Liberty -- History -- 16th century; Liberty -- History -- 17th century; Political science -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; Political science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century; Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more violent fervor. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe argues that this turbulent age also laid the conceptual foundations of our modern ideas about liberty, justice, and democracy. Hilary Gatti taught for many years at the Sapienza University of Rome. Her books include Essays on Giordano Bruno (Princeton), Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science , and The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge: Giordano Bruno in England . |
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