Sidney: Court Maxims

by Algernon Sidney

Book Overview

This remarkable expression of radical republican thought has never before been published. Algernon Sidney was among the most unrelenting partisans of the parliamentary party during the Commonwealth, and died on the scaffold in 1683 for his opposition to Charles II. Sidney's voluminous Discourses Concerning Government was published after his death, but the earlier and more vivid Court Maxims was only recently rediscovered in a manuscript in Warwick...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521467365
• ISBN13: 9780521467360
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"