Constitutionalism and Statecraft During the Golden Age of Spain
Title | Constitutionalism and Statecraft During the Golden Age of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Guenter Lewy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Jesuits |
ISBN |
Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought
Title | Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Harald E Braun |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2013-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1409479625 |
The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought. His treatise De rege et regis institutione libri tres (1599) is dedicated to Philip III of Spain. It was to present the principles of statecraft by which the young king was to abide. Yet soon after its publication, Catholic and Calvinist politiques in France started branding Mariana a regicide. De rege was said to empower the private individual to kill a legitimate king. Its 'pernicious doctrines' were blamed for the murder of Henry IV in 1610, and it was burned at the order of the parlement of Paris. Modern historians have tended to build on this interpretation and consider De rege a stepping stone towards modern pluralist and democratic thought. Nothing could be further from the truth. The notion of Mariana as an uncompromising theorist of resistance is in fact based on the distorted reading of a few select sentences from the first book of the treatise. This study offers a radical departure from the old view of Mariana as an early modern constitutionalist thinker and advocate of regicide. Thorough analysis of the text as a whole reveals him to be a shrewd and creative operator of political language as well as a champion of the church and bishops of Castile. The argument as a whole is informed by a Catholic-Augustinian view of human nature. Mariana's bleak, at times downright cynical view of man imparts focus and coherence to a text that challenges well established terminological boundaries and political discourses. In the first instance, his deeply pessimistic appraisal of human virtue justifies his disregard of positive law. He is thus able to mould diverse elements extracted from Roman and canon law, scholastic theology and humanist literature into a deliberately equivocal discourse of reason of state. Finally, this secular interpretation of the world of politics is cleverly yoked to a thoroughly clerical agenda of reform. In fact, reason of state is made to propagate an episcopal monarchy. De rege is exceptional in that it strings together a curious scholastic theory of the origins of society, a conservative ideology of absolute monarchy and a breathtakingly radical vision of theocratic renewal of Spanish government and society. Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Political Thought elucidates the differentiated nature of political debate in Habsburg Spain. It confirms the complexity of Spanish political life in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Complementing recent work on Catholic political thought, the European reception of Machiavelli, and Spanish Habsburg government, this study offers a more complete and holistic picture of early modern Spanish political culture.
Constitutionalism and Statecraft during the “ Golden age ” of Spain : a study of the political philosophy of Juan de Mariana, S.J.
Title | Constitutionalism and Statecraft during the “ Golden age ” of Spain : a study of the political philosophy of Juan de Mariana, S.J. PDF eBook |
Author | Guenter Lewy |
Publisher | Librairie Droz |
Pages | 204 |
Release | |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 2600332235 |
Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme Bosch ou Rabelais, Ronsard ou le Primatice...), mais aussi la médecine, les sciences, la philosophie, l'histoire du livre et toutes les formes de savoir et d’activité humaine d’un long XVIe siècle, des environs de 1450 jusqu’à la mort du roi Henri IV, seuil de l'âge classique. Les Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance sont le navire-amiral des éditions Droz.
A study of the political philosophy of Juan de Mariana, S.J.; Constitutionalism and statecraft during the Golden age of Spain
Title | A study of the political philosophy of Juan de Mariana, S.J.; Constitutionalism and statecraft during the Golden age of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Guenter Lewy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 1960 |
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Constitutionalism and statecraft during the Golden Age of Spain: a study of the political philosophy of Juan de Mariana, S.J. Geneva, Librairie E.Droz, 1960 bibl
Title | Constitutionalism and statecraft during the Golden Age of Spain: a study of the political philosophy of Juan de Mariana, S.J. Geneva, Librairie E.Droz, 1960 bibl PDF eBook |
Author | Guenter Lewy |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | Jesuits |
ISBN |
Constitutionalism and Statecraft During the Golden Age of Spain
Title | Constitutionalism and Statecraft During the Golden Age of Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Guenter Lewy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Politics and Eternity: Studies in the History of Medieval and Early-Modern Political Thought
Title | Politics and Eternity: Studies in the History of Medieval and Early-Modern Political Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Oakley |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2022-06-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004452745 |
This book is composed of a series of studies in the history of political thought from late antiquity to the early-eighteenth century. They range broadly across theories of kingship, political theology, constitutional ideas, natural-law thinking, and consent theory.