TY - BOOK ID - 73229699 TI - Ancient models in the early modern Republican imagination AU - Velema, Wyger AU - Weststeijn, Arthur PY - 2018 SN - 9789004351387 9004351388 9789004351370 900435137X PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Republicanism KW - Political science KW - Political philosophy KW - History. KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73229699 AB - Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination , edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective. While most scholars agree on the importance of the classical world to early modern republican theorists, its role is all too often described in rather abstract and general terms such as “classical republicanism” or the “neo-roman theory of free states”. The contributions to this volume propose a different approach and all focus on the specific ways in which ancient republics such as Rome, Athens, Sparta, and the Hebrew Republic served as models for early modern republican thought. The result is a novel interpretation of the impact of antiquity on early modern republicanism. ER -