Product Description: For seventeenth-century English intellectuals, the ancient Epicureans and Stoics spoke clearly and forcefully to the kinds of problems they most wanted to solve. Whether seeking to define divinity, kingship, nobility, or liberty; to determine how people should live, govern, worship, form societies, and interpret nature; or to mediate between pleasure and virtue -- early Stuart writers time and again adapted and transformed the rival yet crossbred legacies of Epicureanism and Stoicism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England is the first text in over a century to examine the whole of Selden's works and thought. Reid Barbour brings a new perspective to Selden studies by stressing Selden's strong commitment to a 'religious society,' by taking a closer and more sustained look at his poetic interests, and by systematically examining his Latin publications (particularly those using Jewish sources)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)