{"product_id":"a-treatise-of-orders-and-plain-dignities-hardback-9780521405195","title":"A Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities (Hardback) 9780521405195","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn important and influential treatise on public power which influenced French thinkers from its publication in 1610 until the end of the ancien regime.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles Loyseau (Author), Howell A. Lloyd (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521405195, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 March 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.3 x 14.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This first-ever English-language edition of a once-celebrated work by a contemporary of Jean Bodin is a valuable contribution to the Skinnerian project of filling in the intellectual valleys separating the 'peaks' of Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau and Kant, and Hegel and Marx.\"   Ethics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis was the first English edition of a treatise which influenced French thinkers from its publication in 1610 until the end of the ancien regime. Charles Loyseau's Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities is the third of three major works in which he sets out to harmonise with law his fellow citizens' values and behaviour in the crucial sphere of possession and exercise of public power. Howell A. Lloyd's introduction outlines Loyseau's political thesis on the basis of all three of the author's treatises, and examines in relation to the Treatises of Orders Loyseau's use of literary, historical and legal materials within the philosophical framework that governed his approach. This edition thus not only makes available an important text, but also casts light upon the intellectual milieu of those who administered early-modern France.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Principal events in Loyseau's life\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographical note\u003cbr\u003e Note on translation and citations\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Biographical notes\u003cbr\u003e Dedicatory epistle: Charles Loyseau to the Honourable Jean Forget\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Of order in general\u003cbr\u003e 2. Of the Roman orders\u003cbr\u003e 3. Of the order of the clergy\u003cbr\u003e 4. Of the order of nobility in general\u003cbr\u003e 5. Of plain gentlemen\u003cbr\u003e 6. Of the high nobility\u003cbr\u003e 7. Of princes\u003cbr\u003e 8. Of the third estate\u003cbr\u003e 9. Of solemn deprivation of order\u003cbr\u003e 10. Of the plain dignities of Rome\u003cbr\u003e 11. Of the plain dignities of France\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007241441560,"sku":"9780521405195","price":84.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521405195i_82a5ac12-4121-4243-941e-887bb7b09339.jpg?v=1691381201","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-treatise-of-orders-and-plain-dignities-hardback-9780521405195","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}