The Materiality of Res Publica: How to Do Things with Publics

✍ Scribed by Dominique Colas; Oleg Kharkhordin

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For the last 100 years, political science has traditionally concentrated on the publica part of the expression res publica, conceiving this notion as a form of government opposed to, say, monarchy. However, the Ancients and citizens of Renaissance republics were just as attentive to the res part of the expression. The goal of this richly illustrated volume—containing 94 images—is to draw attention to this res, things and affairs that bring people together. The book first focuses on the central role played by the Rialto Bridge in Venice and by the main bridge in Novgorod the Great in the lives of the respective republics. It includes studies of res in other res publicae: an analysis of the republican icon of a woman crowned with ramparts found in three European cities; and a detailed study of iconography figuring Hobbes’ theory of res publica.

✦ Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
CONTRIBUTORS
CHAPTER ONE
PART I
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
PART II
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
PART III
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN