Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (Metaforms, 12)

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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. 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