Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination

Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination offers a new approach to the study of the classical dimensions of early modern republican thought by analysing its specific and concrete uses of ancient republican models.

Wyger Velema, Ph.D. (1992), Johns Hopkins University, is Jan Romein Professor of History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of eighteenth-century political thought, including Republicans. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Dutch Political Thought (Brill, 2007).Arthur Weststeijn, Ph.D (2010), European University Institute, Florence, is Director of Historical Studies at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. He is the author of Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age (Brill, 2012).Contributors are: Guido Bartolucci, Jacques Bos, Tomasz Gromelski, Rene Koekkoek, Wessel Krul, Thomas Maissen, Jaap Nieuwstraten, Eran Shalev, Benjamin Straumann, William Stenhouse, Wyger Velema, Arthur Weststeijn, and Christine Zabel.