... the growing importance of ideas of necessity and reason of state as tools of government policies during the early seventeenth century. The chapter demonstrates that the Crown’s claims were not unprecedented but had emerged from an older common law tradition. By the time of Ship Money...

... the rise of centralized early modern states, and the “reason of state” was competing with the rites of hospitality at this time. hospitality exile Safavid reason of state Iran One of the most valuable parts of the Tazkirah is Jawhar’s report on Humayun’s exile in Safavid Iran...

... Pufendorf Samuel punishment and enforcement reason of state resort to force in regular war Solemn war bellum solenne sovereignty Wolff Christian diplomacy Enlightenment ius ad bellum law of resort of force Koselleck Reinhardt religion Schmitt Carl Vattel Emer de aggression enemies of mankind...

... Merlin Kajman Hèléne reason of state Republic of Letters Balzac Jean Louis Guez de Machiavelli Niccholo Rambouillet Catherine de Elias Norbert Epicureanism esprit fort Foucault Michel Gassendi Pierre Gauls La Mothe le Vayer François de Naudé Gabriel Urfé Honoré d’ discretion salonnières...

... it was possible to experiment with political discourses that were regarded as dangerous in other contexts. Two such discourses were the interrelated traditions of democracy and reason of state, which came to the fore in the final years of the Company. Body politic Chartered companies Discourses Machiavelli...

... José de Borgia Francis Lesson on the Law of War Vitoria Brandão Luís Dias de Novais Paulo law of war Sandoval Alonso de Simões Garcia Jesuits political authority resistance tyrannicide law indirect power anti-Machiavellism Catholic reason of state war slavery Since its...

...Political Jurisprudence. Martin Loughlin. © M Loughlin 2017. Published 2017 by Oxford University Press. This chapter examines the history of political-legal reasoning. It suggests that this history begins in the Renaissance with the emergence of a doctrine of ‘reason of state’, a doctrine which...

... Empire Ottomans Venice Venetians reason of state public sphere professions drama expert knowledge In 1655, a handsome folio volume entered the emerging market of state papers, historical documents, secret histories, and memoirs promising insight into the arcana of the Elizabethan and Jacobean state...

... differences between localities and countries, while new maps illustrated and measured connections between them. The chapter concludes by examining how new information was being used, as early as 1600, to answer questions posed by reason of state about England’s population and economy. Close examination...

.... Paulus, preface to B. Keckermann, Systema Disciplinae Politicae (Hanau, 1608). Reformation, Resistance, and Reason of State (1517 1625). Sarah Mortimer, Oxford University Press. © Sarah Mortimer 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199674886.003.0001 Habsburg, Ottoman and Valois lands c.1517 NORWAY SWEDEN SCOTLAND...

... sacrificial quality of Charles as portrayed in the Eikon dovetailed with the Stoic features of the text and with its pronounced rejection of fashionable reason-of-state thinking. But it was, above all, the dualist or ‘Laudian’ ecclesiology of the Eikon that generated...

... Machiavellian treatise. That, too, is mistaken. Hobbes’s analysis of the English Civil War politics was indeed Machiavellian or, rather, reason of state, but his own political position—bearing on his interpretation of the Civil War—was that of his political philosophy as the science of just and unjust...

... whether they were Catholic or Protestant. Not many were convinced – England rejected outright the French ‘reason of state’ defence. Catholic states felt the massacres were necessary, but not on reason of state grounds. In practice, Charles IX soon had to backtrack from his stance of defending internal...

... legislation Prussian style Rotteck K von Schmidt Aßmann E welfare policy Basic Law Greven M Th Laband P social welfare state based on law Sozialer Rechtsstaat Policy Polizey-Staat Reason of state Legal state (Rechtsstaat) This chapter deals with the historical forerunners of modern policy...

... critiques of religion toward the service of explicit humanist philosophies or worldviews. humanism religion against religion scholasticism reason of state secularism modernity race Humanism has been notoriously elusive of a clear definition. There are many humanisms, both historical...

... to ‘constitutional essentials’) and that of its agents (with the privileged position of judges in ascertaining public reasons). Finally, the chapter compares public reason with a concept which may be seen to be contiguous with it: that of reason of state. It is shown that, in some versions, (a ‘thin’ meaning) reason...

... in 1769 is often presented as a triumph of early economic liberalism, this chapter shows that the debate over the Indies trade was frequently marked by the defensive assertion of commercial reason of state. As a result, while the corporate “body” of the Compagnie des Indes was dissolved by its liquidation...

... the expression of ideas of ‘policy’ or reason of state in post-Reformation Europe and their application by English writers to monarchical rule in a world rent by religious schism. Often associated with the influence of Machiavelli, Lipsius, and Botero, princely statecraft was most prominently invoked in negative...

..., paradoxically, prove effective as a means of engagement with public, even political, affairs. The first two are works on reason of state; the second two are works of fiction, two of the “best-sellers” of the day. The discussion shows how both discursively and in terms of the content, these works create...