Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Devereux
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Just War ◽  
Spanish History ◽  
Old World ◽  
Moral Arguments

This chapter explains that in the study of empire in the Old World, the Spanish political thought on just war, conquest, and the treatment of newly subject people developed a crucible in which Mediterranean dynastic rivalries were paramount. It assesses the circumstances of conquests in geographies ranging from the wooded Pyrenees to the bustling port of Naples to the arid hinterlands of Tripoli, where the legal and moral arguments undergirding the rise of the early modern empires were forged. It also analyzes different circumstances of the Atlantic world that shows the inevitable continuities linking Mediterranean imperium to its Atlantic successor and demonstrates the incommensurability of Mediterranean dynamics with those of the Gentile-inhabited Atlantic. The chapter sheds light on aspects of Spanish history that have been neglected for centuries. It is not intended only to signify merely a “recovery” of Spain's Mediterranean interests and aspirations during the early sixteenth century, but as stimulant for research and dialogue on the legal and moral arguments surrounding just war, conquest, and empire in a variety of settings.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 107-178
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Atlantic World

Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750, edited by L.H. Roper & B. Van Ruymbeke (Elizabeth Mancke) Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century, by Alejandro de la Fuente with the collaboration of C

scholarly journals Globalizing the Thirty Years War: Early German Newspapers and their Geopolitical Perspective on the Atlantic World*

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Müller
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
South America ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Temporal Integration ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
War News ◽  
German Newspapers

Abstract At the height of the Thirty Years War, news from South America, West Africa and the Caribbean was widespread and quickly distributed in the central European peripheries of the early modern Atlantic world. Despite the German retreat from sixteenth-century colonial experiments, overseas reports sometimes appeared in remote southern German towns before they were printed in Spain or the Low Countries. This article explains the vivid German interest in Atlantic news and examines how correspondents designed their overseas reports for a specifically German news market by connecting them to the European political and military situation, using a rhetorical frame of global conflict. While the domestic importance of American news was sometimes overstated by German newsmakers, its dissemination helps us understand how a sense of global connectedness emerged in a new print genre and created a discourse that supported the spatial and temporal integration of events around the globe.

scholarly journals GENDER IN THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA BECKER
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIn the history of early modern political thought, gender is not well established as a subject. It seems that early modern politics and its philosophical underpinnings are characterized by an exclusion of women from the political sphere. This article shows that it is indeed possible to write a gendered history of early modern political thought that transcends questions of the structural exclusion of women from political participation. Through a nuanced reading of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century commentaries on Aristotle's practical philosophy, it deconstructs notions on the public/political and private/apolitical divide and reconstructs that early modern thinkers saw the relationship of husband and wife as deeply political. The article argues that it is both necessary and possible to write gender in and into the history of political thought in a historically sound and firmly contextual way that avoids anachronisms, and it shows – as Joan Scott has suggested – that gender is indeed a ‘useful category’ in the history of political thought.

Dickens, the German Reformation, and the issue of nation and fatherland in early modern German history

2004 ◽  
Vol 77 (195) ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Robert Von Friedeburg
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Nineteen Sixties ◽  
German History ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reformation History

Abstract This article offers an outline of the historiographical developments in German Reformation history since the later nineteen-sixties. It argues that Dickens picked up major issues in his treatment of the German Reformation that have again come to the fore in recent years. In particular, his combination of local social history with the history of political thought, and with the history of the new pamphlet medium that emerged from the early sixteenth century, allowed him to try to connect these different arenas of research. This remains a primary concern for current Reformation research, as pioneered by studies such as Andrew Pettegree's book on Emden.1

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Devereux
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
The West ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Overseas Expansion ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

This chapter examines the Spanish expansion into the Mediterranean basin during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the monarchy sought to forge a multicontinental empire at the heart of the Old World. It talks about the fact that the early modern Spanish Empire is often thought of as an Atlantic empire, one that arose as a result of the Castilian colonies of the Caribbean and, later, the American mainland. It also provides a reminder that during the early decades of overseas expansion, Spain looked to the east as much as it did to the west. The chapter seeks to address historical discrepancies by analyzing arguments that fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spaniards developed in order to justify acts of war and conquest in the context of the Mediterranean. It connects Spain's Mediterranean imperial project to its Atlantic corollary, reviewing the ways in which the Mediterranean experience sometimes informed and influenced Spanish arguments justifying war and conquest in the Americas.

Philosophic Pride

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

This is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. The book examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. The book delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, the book details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes. The book shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

FINANCIAL REPORTING AND STEWARDSHIP ACCOUNTING IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patti A. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Financial Reporting

This paper examines an early modern contribution to the literature on stewardship accounting, the Tratado de Cuentas or Treatise on Accounts, by Diego del Castillo, a sixteenth-century Spanish jurist.

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