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  title info:
    title: Montesquieu and the spirit of Rome
  name:
    name part: Gilmore, Nathaniel K.
    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: xiii, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Montesquieu and the Spirit of Rome argues that the eighteenth-century French author Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) developed a novel, comprehensive account of Roman history that framed his new political science and grounded his political teachings. Rome's legacy in early modern thought turns on the work of Montesquieu, and through Rome Montesquieu articulated the strengths and weaknesses of the modern state-the moderation that can distinguish it and sources of extremism that must haunt it. This book is the first to unify Montesquieu's Roman thoughts. It is the first to reconstruct the Rome that was one of his most powerful legacies in the 18th and 19th centuries. Montesquieu and the Spirit of Rome restores Rome to its proper place at the peak of Montesquieu's thought and Montesquieu's thought to its proper place in the history of classical study. It treats Montesquieu as what he claimed to be, a jurist, a poet, a historian and a political writer of the first rank, as it revives his hard-nosed defense of moderation.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Moderating the Enlightenment: Montesquieu's Considerations on the state of Europe -- Chapter 2. The Roman people and the virtuous republic -- Chapter 3. The grands hommes and the Republic: the Roman elite --Chapter 4. Roman law reconsidered: Montesquieu's historical jurisprudence -- Chapter 5. Tyranny and legitimacy: Rome and the social contract -- Conclusion.
  note: Nathaniel K. Gilmore.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-206) and index.
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    name:
      name part: baron de
      name part: Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat
      name part: 1689-1755
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: baron de
      name part: Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat
      name part: 1689-1755
  subject:
    name:
      name part: baron de
      name part: Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat
      name part: 1689-1755
  subject:
    name:
      name part: baron de
      name part: Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat
      name part: 1689-1755
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
    topic: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Historiography
    topic: Early works to 1800
  classification: 320.092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2022:10
  identifier: 9781802070248
  identifier: 1802070249
  identifier: 9781802070835
  identifier: 2022361135
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    record content source: HDC
    record creation date: 220804
    record change date: 20241115203403.7
    record identifier: in00005529378