Paolo Sarpi : A Servant of God and State.
Title:
Paolo Sarpi : A Servant of God and State.
Author:
Kainulainen, Jaska.
ISBN:
9789004266742
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Series:
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; v.180
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Sarpi's Venice -- Chapter 3 Ubiquity of Motion -- Chapter 4 Postlapsarian Man -- Chapter 5 Christian Mortalism -- Chapter 6 Servitude to God and State -- Chapter 7 Sovereignty, Obedience and Absolutism -- Chapter 8 The Interest of the State -- Chapter 9 Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects.
Abstract:
This book is an intellectual biography of the Venetian historian and theologian Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623). It analyses Sarpi's natural philosophy, religious ideas and political thought and argues that he was a Christian mortalist and a champion of absolutism.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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