Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Hardcover

Bossuet, Jacques

 
9780521362375: Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Synopsis

A 1991 English rendition of the classic defence of divine-right absolute monarchy in the French language.

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This 1991 book was the first ever English rendition of the classic statement of divine right absolutism, published in 1707 when the power and glory of the French ancien regime was at its zenith. Riley provides a chronology, bibliography and a lucid introduction thus placing Bossuet in his historical and intellectual context.

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9780521368070: Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

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ISBN 10:  0521368073 ISBN 13:  9780521368070
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999
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