1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004350840403321

Autore

Purcell, Victor

Titolo

South and East Asia since 1800 / by Victor Purcell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : At the University press, 1965

Descrizione fisica

X, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

959

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

959 PUR 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456915103321

Titolo

Niccolò Machiavelli [[electronic resource] ] : history, power, and virtue / / edited by Leonidas Donskis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2011

ISBN

1-283-00931-5

9786613009319

90-420-3278-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (127 p.)

Collana

Value inquiry book series ; ; v. 226

Philosophy, literature, and politics

Altri autori (Persone)

DonskisLeonidas

Disciplina

320.1/092

Soggetti

Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This book is the outcome of a series of international seminars held at Vytautas Magnus University School of Political Science and Diplomacy in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- AGAINST ALL THE ODDS: MACHIAVELLI ON FORTUNE IN POLITICS / Timo Airaksinen -- BORDER-VALUE MORALITY AND SEMANTICAL COHERENCE IN MACHIAVELLI’S PRINCE / Hubert Schleichert -- NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI ON POWER / Manfred J. Holler -- THE MODERN WHO BELIEVED THAT HE WAS THE ANCIENT: NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI IN EUROPEAN THOUGHT AND POLITICAL IMAGINATION / Leonidas Donskis -- MACHIAVELLI AND THE THEORY OF EXEMPLARY CONSTITUTIONS / Cătălin Avramescu -- VIRTUE IN HOBBES: SEEN FROM MACHIAVELLIAN POINT OF VIEW / Juhana Lemetti -- RETHINKING MACHIAVELLI: REPUBLICANISM AND TOLERANCE / Olli Loukola -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is an attempt to rethink Niccolò Machiavelli, one of the most challenging political thinkers in the history of European political thought. In 2013, we will mark 500 years since Machiavelli wrote his puzzling letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici, Il Principe . This book is an endeavor to cover some of the most complex aspects of Machiavelli’s life and work.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782458503321

Autore

Summit Jennifer

Titolo

Memory's library [[electronic resource] ] : medieval books in early modern England / / Jennifer Summit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-96661-4

9786611966614

0-226-78172-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Disciplina

027.042

Soggetti

Libraries - England - History - 1400-1600

Libraries - England - History - 17th century

Books and reading - England - History - 16th century

Books and reading - England - History - 17th century

Reformation - England

Book collecting - England - History

England Intellectual life 16th century

England Intellectual life 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-328) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : libraries of memory -- Lydgate's libraries : Duke Humfrey, Bury St. Edmunds, and The fall of princes -- The lost libraries of English humanism : More, Starkey, Elyot -- Reading Reformation : the libraries of Matthew Parker and Edmund Spenser -- A library of evidence : Robert Cotton's medieval manuscripts and the generation of seventeenth-century prose -- "Cogitation against libraries" : Bacon, the Bodleian, and the weight of the medieval past -- Coda : memories of libraries.

Sommario/riassunto

In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory's Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.