Rethinking liberty before liberalism

Abstract

Freedom without republicanism : the case of Montaigne / Felicity Green -- Hugo Grotius on freedom of will and self-government : Greek, Patristic and Roman legacies / Martin van Gelderen -- Liberty before licence in Locke / Hannah Dawson -- Liberty and hierarchy in Milton's revolutionary prose / Rachel Foxley -- Democratic republicanism in the early modern period / Annelien de Dijn -- Gender, liberty, participation and virtue : what the eighteenth century can teach us about republicanism / Sandrine Bergès -- Liberty, death, and slavery in the age of Atlantic revolutions, 1770s-1790s / René Koekkoek -- Beyond the 'wretched subterfuge' : liberalism, freedom, responsibility / Eric Nelson -- 'A just and true liberty' : the idea of (neo-Roman) freedom in francophone counter-revolutionary thought c. 1780-1800 / Matthijs Lok -- Chains and invisible threads : liberty and domination in Marx's account of wage-slavery / Bruno Leipold -- Republican liberty in the philosophy of human rights / Lena Halldenius -- Conclusion. On neo-Roman liberty : a response and reassessment / Quentin Skinner.