Intellectual and Political History
The Construction of Ottonian Kingship: Narratives and Myth in Tenth-Century Germany
1st Edition
By Antoni Grabowski
December 01, 2025
German historians long assumed that the German Kingdom was created with Henry the Fowler's coronation in 919. The reigns of both Henry the Fowler, and his son Otto the Great, were studied and researched mainly through Widukind of Corvey's chronicle Res Gestae Saxonicae. There was one source on ...
The Political Culture of the Sister Republics, 1794-1806: France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy
1st Edition
Edited
By Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, Erik Jacobs
December 01, 2025
Leading historians of the French, Batavian, Helvetic, Cisalpine and Neapolitan revolutions bridge the gap between the historiographies of the so-called 'Sister' Republics. They explore political culture as a set of discourses or political practices. Parliamentary practices, the comparability of '...
Tocqueville, Jansenism, and the Necessity of the Political in a Democratic Age: Building a Republic for the Moderns
1st Edition
By David Selby
December 01, 2025
Before being declared heretical in 1713, Jansenism was a Catholic movement focused on such central issues as original sin and predestination. In this engaging book, David Selby explores how the Jansenist tradition shaped Alexis de Tocqueville’s life and works and argues that once that connection is...