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The Radicalization of Cicero

John Toland and Strategic Editing in the Early Enlightenment

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  1. Katherine A. East

    1. Newcastle University , Northumberland, United Kingdom

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  • Appeals to students and scholars of the history of classical scholarship and radical philosophies in Enlightenment England

  • Introduce material previously neglected intellectual and cultural influences on the early Enlightenment

  • Provides exceptional and thorough contextual accounts of the influence Cicero played on major political and philosophical thoughts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Katherine A. East
    Pages 1-24

  3. Editing Cicero

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. The Editorial Project

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 27-39

    3. The Book: Constructing the Edition

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 41-57

    4. The Author: Composing the Prefatory Life

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 59-87

    5. The Words: Criticising the Text

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 89-119

    6. The Commentary: Interpreting the Text

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 121-150

  4. Interpreting Cicero

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Toland’s Ciceronianism

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 153-168

    3. The Commonwealthman: Cicero and Toland’s Republican Discourse

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 169-194

    4. The Rationalist: Cicero and Toland’s War on Priestcraft

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 195-224

    5. Conclusion: Cicero Remade?

      • Katherine A. East
      Pages 225-230

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 231-283
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About this book

This book uses a previously overlooked Neo-Latin treatise, Cicero Illustratus, to provide insight into the status and function of the Ciceronian tradition at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and consequently to more broadly illuminate the fate of that tradition in the early Enlightenment. Cicero Illustratus itself is the first subject for inquiry, mined for what its deliberately erudite and colorfully polemical passages of scholarly stratagems reveal about Ciceronian scholarship and the motives for exploring it within the context of early Enlightenment thought. It also includes an analysis of the role played by the Ciceronian tradition in the broader political and radical movements that existed in the Enlightenment, with particular attention paid to Cicero’s unexpectedly prominent position in major political and philosophical Republican and Erastian works. The subject of this book together with the conclusions reached will provide scholars and students with crucial new material relating to the classical tradition, the history of scholarship, and the intellectual history of the early Enlightenment.

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“No one has covered this ground before, and Katherine East reveals an awful lot that is new, presenting her findings in an accessible and intelligent fashion. The scholarship is impeccable, and the writing is clarity itself. Scholars of John Toland and the reception of Cicero’s ideas in early modern Europe will be grateful for East’s labors.” (Richard Whatmore, Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Newcastle University , Northumberland, United Kingdom

    Katherine A. East

About the author

Katherine A. East is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University, UK. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Radicalization of Cicero

  • Book Subtitle: John Toland and Strategic Editing in the Early Enlightenment

  • Authors: Katherine A. East

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49757-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49756-3Published: 10 July 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84233-2Published: 01 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49757-0Published: 28 June 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 283

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Intellectual Studies, Philosophy of History

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