Reason of state, propaganda, and the thirty years' war: an unknown translation by Thomas Hobbes

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. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-957571-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 21/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés