Reason of state, propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War : an unknown translation
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Reason of state, propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War : an unknown translation
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Manuscript in parallel English and Latin; commentary in English
"Clarendon Press, Oxford"
Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-219) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state".
Table of Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Dates and Transcriptions
- 1. Hobbes's Early Career
- 2. The Translation: Authorship, Date, and Style
- 3. The 'Secretissima instructio' Texts
- 4. The Distribution of the Altera secretissima instructio in England
- 5. Palatine Politics: Cavendish, Mansfield, and Hobbes
- 6. 'Reason of State' and Hobbes
- Hobbes's translation of Altera secretissima instructio
- Altera secretissima instructio
- List of Manuscripts
- Bibliography
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