“Here at least / We shall be free”: The Places of English Renaissance Literature

Achinstein, Sharon

doi:10.1086/706212

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"Democratic Rabies" In Leviathan1

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“…It is an epidemic of words. 34 34 Sharon Achinstein (1992) establishes a link between government's struggle with the plague and its efforts to suppress the publication and sale of ballads in the early 17 th century England. The circulation of the popular literature that was deemed corrupted was seen as inducing infection as deadly as the plague itself since, according to the renaissance concept of contagion, moral and material causes of the disease were not separable.…”

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Thucydides and Hobbes on Epidemics and Politics:

Ribarević

2023

Polit. misao (Online)

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Thomas Hobbes’s England was deeply troubled by the successive plague visitations‎ regularly occurring in the late 16th and 17th centuries. The catastrophic‎ outbreak in 1625 found Hobbes working on the first ever direct translation of‎ Thucydides’ History from Greek to English. This fact allows for the supposition ‎that Hobbes paid special attention to Thucydides’ masterful account of the plague at Athens and its social and political consequences. These circumstances‎ authorise the here proposed enquiry into the relation between Hobbes’s‎ understanding of the state of nature in Leviathan and the epidemics,‎ mediated by his experience of the plague and the translation of the plague narrative ‎in Thucydides’ History.‎

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Thucydides and Hobbes on Epidemics and Politics:

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“Here at least / We shall be free”: The Places of English Renaissance Literature

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