The Counter-Reformation Prince. Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag minimalst besto�n, Einband leicht klaffend, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket minimally scuffed, cover slightly gappy, otherwise very good condition. - The anti-Machiavellian tradition of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries produced an international political literature that is immensely important for understanding the Counter-Reformation, Baroque culture, and early modern politics and diplomacy. In The Counter-Reformation Prince, Robert Bireley explores this tradition and the writers who cultivated it. According to Machiavelli, at least as he was popularly understood, a ruler could not create and maintain a powerful state without departing from traditional Christian morality. Most Christians rejected this position, and by the early seventeenth century, a well-defined anti-Machiavellian tradition was at work showing how a powerful state could more effectively be built and preserved by methods in accord with morality and religion. Six authors who wrote between 1S8S and 1650 were the main bearers of this tradition: the Italian Giovanni Botero, the Netherlanders Justus Lipsius and Carlo Scribani, the German Adam Contzen, and the Spaniards Pedro de Ribadeneira and Diego Saavedra Fajardo. Botero and Lipsius were perhaps the most widely read political writers of the first half of the seventeenth century. Devoting a chapter to each author, Bireley shows that their writings were practical guides to statecraft, which influenced such contemporaries as Emperor Ferdinand II, Maximilian of Bavaria, Olivares, and Richelieu. The anti-Machiavellian writers contributed to a world-affirming, optimistic view that was characteristic of the Counter Reformation and the Baroque. Their effort to develop a political ethic suited to the changing times was part of the more general attempt of the Counter-Reformation to update the Catholic church in the face of the challenges brought by the sixteenth century. / CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1 The Challenge of Machiavelli Chapter 2 Anti-Machiavellians and Scholastics Chapter 3 Giovanni Botero: Founder of the Tradition (1589) Chapter 4 Justus Lipsius: Founder of the Tradition (1589) Chapter 5 Pedro de Ribadeneira: Origins of the Tradition in Spain (1595) Chapter 6 Adam Contzen: German Anti-Machiavellian (1621) Chapter 7 Carlo Scribani: The Flemish-Hispanic Connection (1624) Chapter 8 Diego Saavedra Fajardo: Climax of the Tradition (1643) Chapter 9 Anti-Machiavellianism, Counter-Reformation, and the Baroque. ISBN 9780807819258