.... The remainder of the chapter discusses the evolution of Islamic political thought; foundations of Islamic political thought; and Islamic political thought in the early Middle Ages (750–1055), high Middle Ages (1055–1258), late Middle Ages (1258–1500), early modern period (1500–1800), and later modern period...

...This chapter sets out the stakes of the book's argument, situating the English East India Company with respect to some of the larger processes of transition and change in the early modern period and the dawn of modernity in the nineteenth century. The issues addressed are large-scale macro...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to introduce visual counterparts to the textual strategies of selection, encapsulation, and recombination employed by Aristotelian and anti-Aristotelian scholars and students in the early modern period. Many early modern philosophical...

... modern period. In their trials of the Pygmalion myth, Bacon and Montaigne express two divergent routes for modernity and its “progress.” In pursuing these admittedly epistemological concerns at the level of rhetoric and myth, the chapter offers an adjustment to the terms by which literary studies...

...This chapter focuses on political theology in the seventeenth century through the language of scripture. It talks about the two most dynamic Protestant states of the early modern period, the Dutch Republic and England. It assesses how the identification with Jews provided the theological...

...People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance...

... risk seventeenth century eighteenth century political thought political economy political subject early modern period unknown future How should we cope with risk? How do we confront a future that is, by definition, uncertain but still likely to contain some kind of peril...