Freedom and the Construction of Europe

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139519281

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

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Contents

Freedom and the Construction of Europe - Half title page
pp i-ii
Religious and Constitutional Liberties
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Freedom and the Construction of Europe - Title page
pp iii-iii
Religious and Constitutional Liberties
- By Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen
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Copyright page
pp iv-iv
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Contents of Volume I
pp v-vi
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Contents of Volume II
pp vii-viii
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Acknowledgements
pp ix-xi
- By Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen
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Notes on contributors
pp xii-xvi
- By Catherine Ballériaux, Annabel Brett, Theodore Christov, John Coffey, Michael Cook, Rosanna Cox, Hannah Dawson, Serena Ferente, Fonna Forman, Felicity Green, Tomasz Gromelski, Polly Ha, Lena Halldenius, Iain Hampsher-Monk, Jaska Kainulainen, Thomas Kaufmann, Lovro Kunčević, Daniel Lee, Avi Lifschitz, Thomas Maissen, Reidar Maliks, Sarah Mortimer, Eric Nelson, Martina Reuter, Alexander Schmidt, Freya Sierhuis, Quentin Skinner, Peter Stacey, Timothy Stanton, Antti Tahvanainen, Martin van Gelderen, Márton Zászkaliczky
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Introduction
pp 1-8
- By Martin van Gelderen
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Part I - Religious freedom and civil liberty
pp 9-154
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1 - Freedomand apocalyptic thinking in early modern Lutheranism
pp 11-20
- By Thomas Kaufmann
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2 - Arminiantrouble: Calvinist debates on freedom
pp 21-37
- By Martin van Gelderen
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3 - Libertasecclesiaein post-tridentine debates on church and state
pp 38-56
- By Jaska Kainulainen
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4 - Ecclesiasticalindependence and the freedom of consent
pp 57-76
- By Polly Ha
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5 - Freedom,virtue and Socinian heterodoxy
pp 77-93
- By Sarah Mortimer
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6 - FromSelden to Mendelssohn: Hebraism and religious freedom
pp 94-114
- By Eric Nelson
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7 - Naturalreligion: Pufendorf and Locke on the edge of freedom and reason
pp 115-133
- By Hannah Dawson
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8 - Freedomof conscience, political liberty and the foundations of liberalism
pp 134-154
- By Timothy Stanton
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Part II - Liberty and liberties in constitutional thought
pp 155-316
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9 - Theliberty of Italian city-states
pp 157-175
- By Serena Ferente
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10 - Freeand unfree states in Machiavelli's political philosophy
pp 176-194
- By Peter Stacey
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11 - Discourseson liberty in early modern Ragusa
pp 195-214
- By Lovro Kunčević
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12 - Libertyand liberties in early modern Poland-Lithuania
pp 215-234
- By Tomasz Gromelski
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13 - Libertyand liberties in Europe's federal republics
pp 235-255
- By Thomas Maissen
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14 - Roman law,German liberties and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire
pp 256-273
- By Daniel Lee
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15 - Thelanguage of liberty in early modern Hungarian political debate
pp 274-295
- By Márton Zászkaliczky
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16 - Thelanguage of liberty in Calvinist political thought
pp 296-316
- By John Coffey
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Bibliography
pp 317-389
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Index of names
pp 390-399
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Index of subjects
pp 400-411
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