"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""."
By:
Noel Malcolm
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 220mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780199215935
ISBN 10: 0199215936
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 March 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Reviews for Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes
Noel Malcolm's book consists of six stage-setting chapters, Hobbes's English translation of a manuscript version of a pamphlet written in Latin during the Thirty Years' War, and the Latin text of the published version. Malcolm's chapters are a tour de force of scholarship...Malcolm's careful, erudite edition of the translation and his discussion of the minutiae of the Thirty Years' War must be lauded. A. P. Martinich, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This book...offers what good history should: the recovery of the past, in all of its forgotten complexity and detail. In a day when most academic writing achieves only clever hermeneutics, reading Noel Malcolm is a bracing pleasure. Times Literary Supplement
