Synopses & Reviews
This is the first English edition of a treatise that influenced French thinkers from its publication in 1610 until the end of the ancien régime. In his Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities, Charles Loyseau set out to harmonize with law his fellow citizens' values and behavior in the crucial sphere of possession and exercise of public power. The introduction to this edition sets this important text in the context of Loyseau's own political thesis and the intellectual milieu of those who administered early-modern France.
Review
"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
Synopsis
First English edition of an important and influential treatise on public power.
Synopsis
In his Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities, Charles Loyseau set out to harmonise with law his fellow citizensâvalues and behaviour in the crucial sphere of possession and exercise of public power. This edition sets Loyseauâs text in the context of his own political thesis and the intellectual milieu of those who administered early-modern France.
Synopsis
An important and influential treatise on public power which influenced French thinkers from its publication in 1610 until the end of the ancien regime.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Principal events in Loyseau's life; Bibliographical note; Note on translation and citations; List of abbreviations; Biographical notes; Dedicatory epistle: Charles Loyseau to the Honourable Jean Forget; Preface; 1. Of order in general; 2. Of the Roman orders; 3. Of the order of the clergy; 4. Of the order of nobility in general; 5. Of plain gentlemen; 6. Of the high nobility; 7. Of princes; 8. Of the third estate; 9. Of solemn deprivation of order; 10. Of the plain dignities of Rome; 11. Of the plain dignities of France; Index.