(Un)masking the realities of power: Justus Lipsius and the dynamics of political writing in early modern Europe

In: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 193

Abstract

Starting from Justus Lipsius's "Monita et exempla politica"(1605), this book offers a collection of essays dealing with the disputed Macchiavellian, Tacitean or Neostoic character of Lipsius's political thought, and its impact on the dynamics of political discourse in Early Modern Europe.