The radicalization of Cicero : John Toland and strategic editing in the early enlightenment /: John Toland and strategic editing in the early enlightenment. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katherine A. East.
• Authors: East, Katherine
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Textual Notes; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1 Creating Cicero Illustratus; 2 A Radical Work; 3 A Work of Scholarship; 4 A Work on Cicero; 5 Approaching Cicero Illustratus; Part I Editing Cicero; Chapter 2 The Editorial Project; 1 Editing Cicero's Opera Omnia; 2 Negotiating Early Modern Scholarship; Chapter 3 The Book: Constructing the Edition; 1 A Book of Quality; Illustration; 2 A Book for Utility; Format; Anchor 6; Anchor 7; Chapter 4 The Author: Composing the Prefatory Life; 1 Writing Cicero's Life. Fabricius' Historia and the Historic Life of CiceroThe Exemplary Life and the Model Cicero; Toland's Dissertation; 2 Manipulating Cicero's Life; Toland's Method; Approaching Historical Scholarship; Toland's Biographical Mission; Chapter 5 The Words: Criticising the Text; 1 The Evolution the Ciceronian Text; Printing the Text: The Editio Princeps; The Cycle of the Textus Receptus; Emendatio Ingenii Ope; Emendatio Codicum; 2 Toland and the Text; Toland and Conjectural Emendation; The Manuscript Evidence; The Restoration of the Author; Chapter 6 The Commentary: Interpreting the Text. 1 Commenting on CiceroThe Evolution of the Commentary; The 'Philological' Commentary; The 'Pedagogical' Commentary; 2 Toland and the Ciceronian Commentary; The 'Philological' Approach to the Text; The 'Pedagogical' Approach to the Text; Part II Interpreting Cicero; Chapter 7 Toland's Ciceronianism; 1 Identifying a Ciceronian; 2 "As Plato Was for Cicero ... "; Making a Model from the Man; Servant of the Commonwealth; Champion of Reason; Chapter 8 The Commonwealthman: Cicero and Toland's Republican Discourse; 1 Cicero and the English Republic; 2 Defining the Commonwealth; The Common-weal. The Res Populi and LibertasThe Res Populi and Property; Legitimising the English Commonwealth; 3 Promoting Civic Virtue; Toland and the Virtuous Statesman; The Virtuous Monarch; Chapter 9 The Rationalist: Cicero and Toland's War on Priestcraft; 1 Situating Ciceronian Theology in the Discourse; Early Modern Approaches to the Problem of Cicero's Voice; Using Ciceronian Theology; 2 Deconstructing Priestcraft; Superstition and Reason; Reason and Priestcraft; 3 Constructing a Civil Religion; Envisaging a Rational Religion; Practising a Rational Religion. The Rational Religion and the CommonwealthChapter 10 Conclusion: Cicero Remade?; Appendix A Catalogue of the Complete Editions of Cicero's Works, 1498-1724; Appendix B The Works of John Toland; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 192; History; Enlightenment -- England; Philosophy, English -- 18th century; PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Enlightenment; Intellectual life; Philosophy, English; Science -- History; History -- Historiography; History of ideas; Historiography; History -- Europe -- General; European history; England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century; England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; England; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319497570
• Related ISBNs: 331949757X; 9783319497563; 3319497561
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 11, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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