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‘some historical explanation…

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of Hobbes’ views’ - Howard Warrander, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1957)

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‘To adduce historical evidence…

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for the view that Hobbes intended his work for a contemporary Christian audience’ is ‘to confuse the issue’ - Howard Warrander, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1957)

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‘that he intended…

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to write for all time’ - Howard Warrander, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1957)

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‘Metaphoric’ action of…

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‘writing between the lines’ - Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Act of Writing (1952)

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‘His most original…

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thoughts are hidden rather than shown forth’ - Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Genesis (1936)

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‘analagous to that…

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of analytical chemistry’ - Arthur Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936)

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‘most philosophic systems…

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are original or distinctive rather in their patterns than in their components’ - Arthur Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936)

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‘foolish to fancy…

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that any philosophy can transcend its present world’ - Georg Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)

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‘States, nations, and individuals…

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are all the time the unconscious tools of the world mind’ - George Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)

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‘did not lose its…

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popularity because it was absurd, but because its work was done’ - John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)

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‘no system of politics…

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can be immutable… a universal theory of the state is a chimera’ - John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)

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‘the method of Whig historians…

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is apparently to isolate the phenomenon and to observe it in vacuo’ - John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)

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‘the theory of natural…

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rights is the old theory of Divine Right disguised’ - John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)

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What, according to Figgis, did Hobbes draw from?

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Continental French theories opposing the Divine Right, notably Bodin

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What, according to Figgis, did John Locke’s thought represent?

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The adaptation of divine right through natural right into contractual theory

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‘the differences between…

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[Plato and Hobbes’ definitions of the state] were not superficial but went down to essentials’ - R.G. Collingwood, Autobiography (1939)

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‘what even the best…

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and wisest of those who are engaged in politics are trying to do has altered’ - R.G. Collingwood, Autobiography (1939)

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‘all history…

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is the history of thought’ - R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (1946)

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‘political life itself…

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sets the main problems for the political theorist’ - Quentin Skinner, Foundations of Modern Political Thought, vol.1 (1978)

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Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos (1579) as ‘a recogniseably…

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modern, secularised thesis’ - Quentin Skinner, Foundations of Modern Political Thought, vol.2 (1978)

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In which book chapter did John Coffey argue that Skinner’s atheism had blinded him to religious assumptions in the past?

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John Coffey, ‘Quentin Skinner and the Religious Dimension of Early Modern-Political Thought’ (2009)

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Which article criticised Skinners methodology as focusing on contentions rather than [religious] consensuses?

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David Wooton, ‘The Fear of God in Early Modern Political Theory’ (1983)

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Which book criticised Skinners dismissal of Calvinist theory of revolution; ‘strictly speaking no such entity exists’, ‘little of their ideology is distinctly Calvinist’;?

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Carlos Eire, War Against the Idols (1986)

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‘secular Lockean liberals… [are]…

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the heirs of the egalitarian promise of Calvinism’ - John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke (1969)

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What did J.G.A. Pocock write in his ‘Advice to Readers’, Barbarism and Religion, vol.5 (2010)?

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That they should not consider Christianity ‘obselete or false’

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‘English political debate…

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is recurrently subordinate to English political theology’ - J.G.A Pocock, ‘A Discourse on Sovereignty’ in Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (1993)

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‘[Hobbes] exercised a…

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very great influence on all subsequent political thought… especially on Locke’ - Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (1953)

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‘It is on the basis…

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of Hobbes’ view of the law of nature that Locke opposes Hobbes’ conclusions’ - Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (1953)

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What did Peter Laslett do in his edition of the Two Treatises on Government?

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Identified the First Treatise as a sentence by sentence refutation of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680)

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Which scholar of Robert Filmer credits Peter Laslett as rescuing him from ‘the condescension of posterity’?

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Cesare Cuttica, Sir Robert Filmer and the Patriotic Monarch (2012)

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Which work deals with Hobbes’ reception?

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Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan (2007)

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Which non-elite sources are used in Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan (2007)?

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  • Sermons by Samuel Parker
  • Satirical Pamphlets by John Eachard
  • Plays by John Dryden
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Which anthology collects sources on Locke’s reception?

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Mark Goldie, The Reception of Locke’s Politics (1999)

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Which non-elite sources did Mark Goldie cite in the introduction of The Reception of Locke’s Politics (1999)?

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Childrens books, stage comedies, novels of Samuel Richardson, legal defence of the Jacobin Thomas Hardy (1794) on treason charges

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Which work was seminal for the study of mid-17th century English sects?

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Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (1972)

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‘The Agreements of the People…

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were social contracts’ - Iain Hampshire-Monk, ‘The Political Theory of the Levellers’ (1976)

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‘Nothing quite like…

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this [Leveller] conjunction had been asserted before’ - Harro Höpfl & Martyn Thompson, ‘The History of Contract as a Motif in Political Thought’ (1979)

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Which work examined Diggers and Levellers alongside Machiavellian and Harringtonian republicanism?

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Christopher Pierson, Just Property, vol.1 (2013)

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‘I propose an understanding…

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of the Levellers which places them centrally in the constitutional and political events of the time’ - Denis Galligan, Constitutions and the Classics (2014)

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Why did Denis Galligan consider the Levellers worthy of study?

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Their genuinely developmental vision of the constitution as ‘a social form comprised of ideas, concepts, and rules’

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How did J.G.A. Pocock view the Levellers in the Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957)?

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As very much within the English Liberties tradition with strong shades of ‘anti-Normanism’

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Which engraver produced the frontispiece for Leviathan under the direction of Hobbes?

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Abraham Bosse

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Which German article provides a good early example of the use of visual intellectual history?

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Reinhard Brandt, ‘Das Titelblatt des Leviathan’ (1987)

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Which article saw Hobbes’ sovereign portrayed as a sea monster (thus giving insights into his attitude toward state terror and usurpation)?

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Magnus Kristiansson & Johan Tralau, ‘Hobbes’ Hidden Monster’ (2014)

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Which CIH blog post connected the Leviathan frontispiece to debates on Cartesian epistemology?

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Esben Korsgaard Rasmussen, ‘Thomas Hobbes and the Rejection of Objective Being’ (2023)

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Which book contains a chapter on ‘Hobbes and the Humanist Frontispiece’ - arguing that visual and metaphoric communication shows the continuity of humanist modes in Hobbes work?

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Quentin Skinner, From Humanism to Hobbes (2018)

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TH (51)

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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)

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JL (89)

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John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689)

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Which additional examples of 17th century contractualist theory are there?

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Henry Parker, Jus Populi (1644)
John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government (1698) [written in the 1680s]

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PL ed (60)

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John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Peter Laslett (ed.) (1960)

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JD (69)

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John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke (1969)

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JP (57)

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J.G.A Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957)

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QS (66)

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Quentin Skinner, ‘The Ideological Context of Hobbes’ Political Thought’ (1966)

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QS (98)

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Quentin Skinner, Liberty before Liberalism (1998)

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HW (57)

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Howard Warrander, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1957)

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LS (52)

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Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Act of Writing (1952)

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LS (36)

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Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (1936)

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AL (36)

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Arthur Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936)

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GH (21)

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Georg Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)

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GH (37)

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Georg Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837)

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JF (96)

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John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)

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RC (39)

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R.G. Collingwood, Autobiography (1939)

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RC (46)

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R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (1946)

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QS (78)

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Quentin Skinner, Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)

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JC (09)

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John Coffey, ‘Quentin Skinner and the Religious Dimension of Early Modern Political Thought’ in Seeing Things Their Way (2009)

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CE (86)

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Carlos Eire, War against the Idols (1986)

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QS (80)

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Quentin Skinner, ch. ‘The Origins of the Calvinist Theory of Revolution’ (1980)

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DW (83)

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David Wooton, ‘The Fear of God in Early Modern Political Theory’ (1983)

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JP (10)

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J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, vol.5 (2010)

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JP (93)

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J.G.A. Pocock, ‘A Discourse on Sovereignty’ in Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (1993)

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LS (53)

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Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (1953)

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CC (12)

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Cesare Cuttica, Sir Robert Filmer and the Patriotic Monarch (2012)

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JP (07)

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Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan (2007)

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MG (99)

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Mark Goldie, The Reception of Locke’s Politics (1999)

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CH (72)

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Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (1972)

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IHM (76)

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Iain Hampshire-Monk, ‘The Political Theory of the Levellers’ (1976)

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HH MT (79)

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Harro Höpfl & Martyn Thompson, ‘The History of Contract as a Motif in Political Thought’ (1979)

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CP (13)

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Christopher Pierson, Just Property, vol.1 (2013)

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DG (14)

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Denis Galligan, Constitutions and the Classics (2014)

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JP (57)

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J.G.A. Pocock, Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957)

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RB (87)

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Reinhard Brandt, ‘Das Titelblatt des Leviathan’ (1987)

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QS (18)

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Quentin Skinner, From Humanism to Hobbes (2018)

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MK JT (14)

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Magnus Kristiansson & Johan Tralau, ‘Hobbes Hidden Monster’ (2014)

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EKR (23)

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Esben Korsgaard Rasmussen, Thomas Hobbes and the Rejection of Objective Being (2023)

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In which book did Quentin Skinner find a ‘recogniseably modern, secularised thesis’?

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Vindicae Contra Tyrannos (1579)

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