Republicanism
Subtitle: A Shared European Heritage
Contributors: Martin van Gelderen (Editor); Quentin Skinner (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 23, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780521807562
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History of ideas, intellectual history; Political structures: democracy; Republicanism; Political Ideologies - Democracy; History; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Europe; Italy; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; International Relations - General; Case studies; Political culture
First sentence: A good place to begin this chapter - and indeed this entire volume on republican values - is with the rubric De statu hominis from the opening of the Digest of Roman law, perhaps the most influential of all the classical discussions of the concept of civil liberty.