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218/13

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9789004225657

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A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency, Containing a Defence of the Treatise De Cive of the Learned Mr Hobbes

Lambert van Velthuysen. Edited and translated by Malcolm de Mowbray. With an introduction by Catherine Secretan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency (1651) by Lambert van Velthuysen deduces the nature of virtue and vice and the right to punish crimes from the Hobbesian principle of self-preservation.

€109.00$152.00

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217

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9789004236806

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Translatio Studiorum

Edited by Marco Sgarbi, Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence

The present volume collects seventeen case studies that characterize the various kinds of translationes of the European culture of the last two and a half millennia from ancient Greece to Rome, from the Medieval world to the Renaissance up to the Modernity.

€105.00$146.00

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215

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9789004231375

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Spinoza Past and Present

Wiep van Bunge, Erasmus University Rotterdam

In Spinoza Past and Present Wiep van Bunge explores various aspects of Spinoza’s works and the often conflichting ways in which the Dutch philosopher’s views have been interpreted from the seventeenth century onwards.

€129.00$179.00

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214

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9789004186705

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Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) between Science and Scholarship

Edited by Eric Jorink, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, and Dirk van Miert, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands

This volume describes how Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) rose to fame in the fascinating world of seventeenth-century scholarship and science.

€129.00$179.00

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213

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9789004211162

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The Life of J. D. Åkerblad

Fredrik Thomasson, Uppsala University

This intellectual biography of Johan David Åkerblad (1763–1819) presents a new account of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian. Oriental and classical studies and their entwinement in the turbulent politics of this age of Revolutions are presented from a novel perspective.

€129.00$177.00

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211

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9789004221468

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The Intellectual Consequences of Religious Heterodoxy, 1600-1750

Edited by Sarah Mortimer, Christ Church, Oxford and John Robertson, University of Cambridge

Challenging the common assumption that religious heterodoxy was a prelude to the secularisation of thought, this volume explores the variety of relations between heterodox theology, political thought, moral and natural philosophy and historical writing in both Protestant and Catholic Europe from ...

€129.00$177.00

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210

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9789004224032

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Petrarch and St. Augustine

Alexander Lee, University of Luxembourg and University of Warwick

Challenging the familiar view of Francesco Petrarca as the ‘father of humanism’, this book offers a comprehensive re-interpretation of Petrarch’s debt to the theology of St. Augustine, and advances a provocative new reading of the development of humanism in Italy.

€99.00$136.00

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209

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9789004214224

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Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century

Emily M.N. Kugler, Colby College

By focusing on eighteenth-century English textual representations of the Ottomans, we can observe the turning point in public perceptions, the moments when English subjects began to believe British imperial power was a reality rather than an aspiration.

€119.00$163.00

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208

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9789004208070

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The Politics of Memory

Raingard Esser, University of Groningen

The Eighty Years’ War and the partition of the Low Countries led to the publication of numerous chorographical works on towns and regions in the Northern and Southern Netherlands. This book offers a comparison of these histories reflecting political change and promoting new identities.

€129.00$177.00

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207/12

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9789004212367

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Adriaan Koerbagh, A Light Shining in Dark Places, to Illuminate the Main Questions of Theology and Religion

Edited and translated by Michiel Wielema

This book is the first English edition of a major critique of organized religion. A rational plea for tolerance and free thought, Adriaan Koerbagh's A Light Shining in Dark Places (1668) demolishes the authority of the Christian revelation and the churches.