Browsing W&L University Student Scholarship by Subject "Despotism"
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Death to Tyrants: The Evolution of Political Thought Regarding Tyrannicide from Cicero to Salutati
I will devote the first chapter of this work to Marcus Tullius Cicero. Specifically, I will analyze Cicero's definition of the tyrant, as well as his justification of tyrannicide, notably in his De Officiis (44 B.C.). I ... -
An Essay on Absolutism in the Renaissance
Thus we have observed the diverse paths which the renaissance rulers chose to carve their national monarchies. All of them were aided by a powerful but subordinated oligarchy, be it the Royal Council in England, le Conseil ...