Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and political science.

Studies of the political languages worked out in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern age have investigated up to now above all the role of the discursive prac

A team of leading scholars survey the development of philosophy in the period of extraordinary intellectual change from the mid-16th century to the early 18th c

Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.