From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations and conventions

1. Introduction

2. Classical rhetoric and the personation of the state

3. Machiavelli on misunderstanding princely virtù

4. Judicial rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice

5. Rhetorical redescription and its uses in Shakespeare

6. The generation of John Milton at Cambridge

7. Rethinking liberty in the English revolution

8. Hobbes on civil conversation

9. Hobbes on political representation

10. Hobbes and the humanist frontispiece

11. Hobbes on hereditary right

12. Hobbes and the concept of the state

Bibliographies

Manuscript sources

Primary printed sources

Secondary sources

Index

Quentin Skinner is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. He was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton between 1974 and 1979, and was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge between 1996 and 2008. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Renaissance and Modern Intellectual History, and the recipient of many awards including the Wolfson Prize for History and a Balzan Prize. Previous publications include the two-volume study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge, 1978), Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge, 1998) and, most recently, From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (Cambridge, 2018).