Tag: Politic

Free Download Bert De Munck, "Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800 "
English | ISBN: 0815372027 | 2017 | 312 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community was deeply indebted to a corporative spirit and guild ethic originating in medieval Germanic and Christian traditions, guild-based artisans succeeded in being accepted as genuine political (and, hence, rational) actors – their political identity and agency being based upon their skills and trustworthiness.

Free Download The Deaths of the Republic: Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome by Brian Walters
English | May 3, 2020 | ISBN: 019883957X | True EPUB/PDF | 176 pages | 0.9/1.2 MB
That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic suggest that the idea was hardly new.

Free Download The Elements of Law: Natural and Politic By Thomas Hobbes, Ferdinand Tonnies (editor)
2020 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 0367142163 | PDF | 29 MB
Originally published in 1889, Ferdinand Tonnies published versions of two works by Thomas Hobbes. His editions of The Elements of Law: Natural and Politic and of Behemoth: or The Long Parliament were the first modern critical editions, based on manuscripts of works by Hobbes. Completed in 1640, The Elements of Law was Hobbes’s first systematic political work. The book helps us see Hobbes’s mind at work, for it is the first version of his later political works.

Free Download John H. Cameron, "Shakespeare’s Politic Histories "
English | ISBN: 1032523085 | 2023 | 248 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 3 MB
This book posits that Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy draws inspiration from the Italian "politic histories" of the early modern period. These works of history, influenced by the Roman historian Tacitus, delve into the exploration of the machinations of power politics in governance and the shaping of historical events. The argument is that closely analysing these Italian "politic histories" can significantly enhance our understanding of the "politic" aspects dramatized in Shakespeare’s early English History plays. Specifically, the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli are highlighted as contributing to this understanding. These "politic histories" were accessible (in a variety of forms) to many English early modern writers, including Shakespeare. Thus, they serve as foundation for political and strategic analogies, enriching our interpretation of Shakespeare’s politic histories.