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  title info:
    title: Plutarch's prism
    sub title: classical reception and public humanism in France and England, 1500-1800
  name:
    name part: Kingston, Rebecca
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 444 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Elizabeth I herself translated Plutarch in her later years, while Jacques Amyot's famous translations of Plutarch's The Parallel Lives led to the wide distribution of his work and served as a key resource for Shakespeare in the writing of his Roman plays, through Sir Thomas North's English translations. Rebecca Kingston's new study explores how Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and how his works were invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the eighteenth century, contributing to a tradition she calls 'public humanism.' This book traces the shifting uses of Plutarch in the Enlightenment, leading to the decline of this tradition of 'public humanism.' Throughout, the importance of Plutarch's work is highlighted as a key cultural reference and for its insight into important aspects of public service.
  note: Rebecca Kingston.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-437) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plutarch
    topic: Translations into French
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plutarch
    topic: Translations into English
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plutarch
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Politics and literature
    geographic: France
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Politics and literature
    geographic: England
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
  classification: PA4388.A2 K56 2022
  classification: 888/.01
  classification: POL010000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ideas in context
  identifier: 9781009243483
  identifier: 1009243489
  identifier: 9781009243490
  identifier: 9781009243445
  identifier: 2022033166
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220802
    record change date: 20230123152411.8
    record identifier: in00004636736