The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation

by Quentin Skinner

Overview

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521222846
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/30/1978
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.33(h) x 1.26(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Absolutism and the Lutheran Reformation: 1. The principles of Lutheranism; 2. The forerunners of Lutheranism; 3. The spread of Lutheranism; Part II. Constitutionalism and the Counter Reformation: 4. The background of constitutionalism; 5. The revival of Thomism; 6. The limits of constitutionalism; Part III. Calvinism and the Theory of Revolution: 7. The duty to resist; 8. The context of the Huguenot revolution; 9. The right to resist; Conclusion; Bibliography of primary sources; Bibliography of secondary sources; Index.