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Article: Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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Harald E. Braun. Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought.
Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xiv + 200 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-3962-6.
The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) is remembered as the most prominent Catholic monarchomach and a leading historiographer of late sixteenth-century Spain. In his De Rege et Regis institutione libre III et Phillippum III Hispania Regem Catholicum (1599), Mariana at the same time advocated absolute monarchy and the overthrowing of tyrants. Mariana thus occupies an odd place in the history of political philosophy, for his ideas contradicted ...