Radicalization of Cicero

John Toland and Strategic Editing in the Early Enlightenment

AvKatherine A. East

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book uses a previously overlooked Neo-Latin treatise, Cicero Illustratus, to provide insight into the status and function of the Ciceronian tradition at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and consequently to more broadly illuminate the fate of that tradition in the early Enlightenment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-01
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:391 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:283
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319842332

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Katherine A. East is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University, UK.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- I. Editing Cicero.- 2. The Editorial Project.- 3. The Book: Constructing the Edition.- 4. The Author: Composing the Prefatory Life.- 5. The Words: Criticising the Text.- 6. The Commentary: Interpreting the Text.- II. Interpreting Cicero.- 7. Toland’s Ciceronianism.- 8. The Commonwealthman: Cicero and Toland’s Republican Discourse.- 9. The Rationalist: Cicero and Toland’s War on Priestcraft.- 10. Conclusion.