The foundations of modern political thought/
Quentin Skinner
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- 2 v. ; 24 cm.
v. 1. The Renaissance.-- v.2. The Age of Reformation.
Part 1: Absolutism and the Lutheran Reformation -- The principles of Lutheranism -- The forerunners of Lutheranism -- The spread of Lutheranism -- Part 2: Constitutionalism and the Counter Reformation -- The background of constitutionalism -- The revival of Thomism -- The limits of constitutionalism -- Part 3: Calvinism and the theory of Revolution -- The duty to resist -- The context of the Huguenot revolution -- The right to resist.