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- catalog abstract ""How did the modern state become the Leviathan that Hobbes described? Engster challenges the common assertion that the state emerged from a new secular philosophy at the time of the Renaissance. He argues instead that early modern theorists legitimized state power by portraying it as a sanctified force for moral order within an otherwise secular and contingent world." "Engster traces the modern development of state authority to the breakdown of medieval ideas of order encompassed in the "great chain of being." He then shows how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers and statesmen such as Montaigne, Bodin, Richelieu, Bossuet, and Hobbes redefined the main principles of the state - including legislative sovereignty, executive prerogative, governmental regulation, and bureaucratic rationality - in ways that underlie state organization even today."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12259894.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""How did the modern state become the Leviathan that Hobbes described? Engster challenges the common assertion that the state emerged from a new secular philosophy at the time of the Renaissance. He argues instead that early modern theorists legitimized state power by portraying it as a sanctified force for moral order within an otherwise secular and contingent world." "Engster traces the modern development of state authority to the breakdown of medieval ideas of order encompassed in the "great chain of being." He then shows how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers and statesmen such as Montaigne, Bodin, Richelieu, Bossuet, and Hobbes redefined the main principles of the state - including legislative sovereignty, executive prerogative, governmental regulation, and bureaucratic rationality - in ways that underlie state organization even today."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index.".
- catalog description "The Montaignian Moment -- Jean Bodin -- Cardinal Richelieu and the Birth of Modern Executive Power -- Louis XIV and the Ideology of the Regulatory State -- English State Theory.".
- catalog extent "257 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0875802753 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "320.1 21".
- catalog subject "JC139 .E54 2001".
- catalog subject "Political science France History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Political science France History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "State, The History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "State, The History 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Montaignian Moment -- Jean Bodin -- Cardinal Richelieu and the Birth of Modern Executive Power -- Louis XIV and the Ideology of the Regulatory State -- English State Theory.".
- catalog title "Divine sovereignty : the origins of modern state power / Daniel Engster.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".