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Early Modern Studies @ Newcastle

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Republicanism Reading Group

Past Meetings

21-04-08

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Considerations on the Government of Poland
  • George Wokler, Chapter 4, Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

10-03-08

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
  • George Wokler, Chapter 4, Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

11-02-08

  • George Buchanan, De Jure Regi apud Scotos or, a Dialogue, concerning the Privilege of Government in the Kingdom of Scotland.
  • Cicero, De Re Publica, Chapter 1

14-01-07

  • John Milton, The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth. 2nd edition. 1660.
  • J.G.A. Pocock, “The Problem of English Machiavellianism: Modes of Civic Consciousness before the Civil War” in his The Machiavellian Moment (1975).

03-12-07

  • Robert Molesworth, Principles of a Real Whig: Contained in a Preface to the famous Hotoman’s Franco-Gallia (1775).
  • Quentin Skinner, “Rethinking Political Liberty” History Workshop Journal 61 (2006)

19-11-07

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet: Political Greatness”
  • Blair Worden, “Republicanism, Regicide and Republic”, in Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen, eds. Republicanism: A Shared European Inheritance. Vol. 1

22-10-07

  • Jonathan Scott, “Radical Renaissance (2): Republican Moral Philosophy and the Politics of Settlement” in his England’s Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context.