The foundations of modern political thought/
Quentin Skinner
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- 2 v. ; 24 cm.
v. 1. The Renaissance.-- v.2. The Age of Reformation.
Part 1: The Origins of the Renaissance -- The ideal of liberty -- Rhetoric and liberty -- Scholasticism and liberty -- Part 2: The Italian Renaissance -- The Florentine Renaissance -- The age of princes -- The survival of Republican values -- Part 3: The Northern Renaissance -- The diffusion of humanist scholarship -- The reception of humanist political thought -- The humanist critique of humanism --