Cesare Cuttica
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1689378 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cesare Cuttica |
| NOMBRES | Cesare |
| APELLIDO | Cuttica |
| FIRMA | CUTTICA C |
| AFILIACIONES | Université Paris 8 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Democratic Caesarism and the Cultural Critique of the Masses in Victorian Britain
This article reverses prevailing scholarly assumptions according to which in Victorian Britain Caesarism was neglected in both theoretical parlance and public discussion. It shows how intellectuals as ideologically different as Bagehot, Seeley, and Maine, as well as other (less well known) commentators writing in newspapers and periodicals, theorized about Caesarism–Napoleonism primarily according to cultural considerations. This means that they …
The Foundations of English Anti-Democratic Thought c.1630s–1880s
This article proposes a synchronic-diachronic reading of a specific antidemocratic language that shaped the intellectual history of England. It suggests that, from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, an ideologically diverse body of thinkers similarly and consistently criticized democracy not just as a government but as a plebeian way of life dominated by the licentious and cruel multitude-mob-mass — not by the people and not by…
Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary, written by Holman, Christopher
‘The History of Political Thought Above All’
Well-known for his work on absolutism, divine right theory, and his contextual reading of Hobbes’ ideas, Sommerville also published successful critical editions of Sir Robert Filmer and King James vi and I’s political writing. Sommerville’s engagement in key historiographical debates on early- modern British history, involving “opposing camps” of revisionists and post-revisionists, is less explored. Here, I focus on the question whether pre-Civil…
Popularity in Early Modern England (ca. 1580–1642)
An important object of study in the historiography of early modern England, popularity has been examined in relation to figures such as the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham. It has been equally accounted for as the activity of MPs who fostered the cause of patriotic and freeborn Englishmen during the absolutist reigns of the early Stuarts. Popularity has also been dealt with when addressing resistance theory and people's power in pre-soci…
Archaeologist, coroner, detective, lawyer, translator or what? The (intellectual) historian, cultural criticism, audiences and the painterly eye
This article does three things. First, it briefly presents some relevant depictions of the (general) historian by past and present scholars, whilst also touching on the contested role of theory in historians' practice. Second, it illustrates a few distinct images by which the practice of the intellectual historian has been characterised. It thus argues that these images, which chiefly draw on recent work by Stefan Collini (1947-), provide a speci…
The Intellectual Historian as Critic
This article examines the work of the intellectual historian and critic Stefan Collini (1947–). It illustrates his methodological approach to the study of history; traces the unexpected similarities between his intellectual practice and that of cultural critics as diverse as Matthew Arnold and William Empson; points to the differences in content and vision informing his manifold scholarly pursuits and those of other intellectual historians (e.g. …
Patriarchal Moments
International audience
Isms and History
Intellectual History
Absolutism, History of
Ronald G. Asch. Sacral Kingship between Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment
From a “comparative and transnational” perspective (p. 3), Ronald G. Asch's book deals chronologically with the “common heritage of sacral and sacerdotal monarchy” in early modern France and England (p. 154). Warning against the assumption that the institution and the theory of monarchy underwent a significant change that saw the affirmation of secularization, Asch argues that the appeal to the sacred remained key to representations of kingship “…
Anti-methodology par excellence
Richard Cobb (1917–96) was a well-known historian of modern France whose numerous studies contributed to revising our interpretations of the revolutionary period and its impact on the people of both Paris and the provinces. Cobb was also a very knowledgeable, sharp, witty and deeply entertaining essayist and reviewer not just of all things French across a wide chronological spectrum, but of historical matters more generally. Controversial and unu…
Eavesdropper on the Past
Focused on the much-debated historiographical and academic status of intellectual history, this article addresses for the first time and in detail the methodological views of the British historian John Wyon Burrow (1935–2009). Making use both of his published works and of unpublished material left to the University of Sussex Library (including lectures, letters, academic projects and biographical sketches), its goal is to provide a thorough accou…
The English Regicide and Patriarchalism
Cet article examine un ensemble particulier de réactions polémiques à l’assassinat du roi Charles Ier Stuart (1649), datant du début des années 1650. Le discours politique que cet ensemble présente est défini ici comme un absolutisme patriarcaliste. En se penchant sur l’œuvre de Claudius Salmasius (1649), de Robert Filmer (1652), et sur le discours de John Milton en relation avec ces deux premiers penseurs, on traitera des trois points suivants. …
A Thing or Two About Absolutism and Its Historiography
This essay closely examines the highly contested but widely employed historiographical category ‘absolutism’. Why are scholars so divided on whether it is even legitimate to use the term and, if they agree to do so, why are they still much at odds in explaining what it is? What are the main historiographical currents in the study of absolutism? Is it the same thing to speak of absolutism in regard to the practices of early modern European monarch…
What Type of Historian? Conceptual History and the History of Concepts
Javier Fernández Sebastián's edited collections of essays, Political Concepts and Time, is both a critical homage to the monumental work of Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) and an important contribution to the methodology of history-writing. Centered on the polysemic nature of concepts, which are read as "'vehicles for thought'" studied in their pragmatic and communicative applications in society, Political Concepts and Time provides a stimulating …
Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the Condescension of Posterity
International audience
Anti‐Jesuit patriotic absolutism
This article examines the patriarchalist ideas of Robert Filmer (1588–1653) under a new light, both conceptually and contextually. Against the grain of mainstream historiography whereby Filmer is a quintessentially English character on the stage of seventeenth‐century political thinking, the article studies Filmerian doctrines as part of a wider European framework of political theories. Thus, they present Patriarcha (1620s) as the elucidation of …
Empire of Souls
Stefania Tutino. Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii + 404 pp. index. bibl. $74. ISBN: 978–0–19–974053–6. - Volume 64 Issue 2
A complex journey through the British Isles
Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566–1635)
This article sheds new light on the interesting but little-studied figure of Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566–1635). In presenting Scott's ideas I will modify the interpretation laid out by Peter Clark whose groundbreaking study, ‘Thomas Scott and the Growth of Urban Opposition to the Early Stuart Regime’, is still the only secondary source that pays detailed attention to Scott and his thought, especially his religious opinions. The necessity to …
Sir Francis Kynaston
This article has three main goals. Firstly, it intends to present the interesting but little-studied intellectual figure of Sir Francis Kynaston (1586ca.1642), his educational enterprises, and his contributions to 17th-century English culture. Secondly, it aims to illustrate in detail his often neglected or, at best, misunderstood political ideas and connect them to the type of debates and controversies he was involved in at the end of the 1620s.…
Anti‐Jesuit patriotic absolutism
This article examines the patriarchalist ideas of Robert Filmer (1588–1653) under a new light, both conceptually and contextually. Against the grain of mainstream historiography whereby Filmer is a quintessentially English character on the stage of seventeenth‐century political thinking, the article studies Filmerian doctrines as part of a wider European framework of political theories. Thus, they present Patriarcha (1620s) as the elucidation of …
Sir Francis Kynaston
This article has three main goals. Firstly, it intends to present the interesting but little-studied intellectual figure of Sir Francis Kynaston (1586ca.1642), his educational enterprises, and his contributions to 17th-century English culture. Secondly, it aims to illustrate in detail his often neglected or, at best, misunderstood political ideas and connect them to the type of debates and controversies he was involved in at the end of the 1620s.…
Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566–1635)
This article sheds new light on the interesting but little-studied figure of Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566–1635). In presenting Scott's ideas I will modify the interpretation laid out by Peter Clark whose groundbreaking study, ‘Thomas Scott and the Growth of Urban Opposition to the Early Stuart Regime’, is still the only secondary source that pays detailed attention to Scott and his thought, especially his religious opinions. The necessity to …
Sir Francis Kynaston
This article has three main goals. Firstly, it intends to present the interesting but little-studied intellectual figure of Sir Francis Kynaston (1586ca.1642), his educational enterprises, and his contributions to 17th-century English culture. Secondly, it aims to illustrate in detail his often neglected or, at best, misunderstood political ideas and connect them to the type of debates and controversies he was involved in at the end of the 1620s.…
Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566–1635)
This article sheds new light on the interesting but little-studied figure of Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566–1635). In presenting Scott's ideas I will modify the interpretation laid out by Peter Clark whose groundbreaking study, ‘Thomas Scott and the Growth of Urban Opposition to the Early Stuart Regime’, is still the only secondary source that pays detailed attention to Scott and his thought, especially his religious opinions. The necessity to …
A complex journey through the British Isles
Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the Condescension of Posterity
International audience
Anti‐Jesuit patriotic absolutism
This article examines the patriarchalist ideas of Robert Filmer (1588–1653) under a new light, both conceptually and contextually. Against the grain of mainstream historiography whereby Filmer is a quintessentially English character on the stage of seventeenth‐century political thinking, the article studies Filmerian doctrines as part of a wider European framework of political theories. Thus, they present Patriarcha (1620s) as the elucidation of …
Empire of Souls
Stefania Tutino. Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii + 404 pp. index. bibl. $74. ISBN: 978–0–19–974053–6. - Volume 64 Issue 2
What Type of Historian? Conceptual History and the History of Concepts
Javier Fernández Sebastián's edited collections of essays, Political Concepts and Time, is both a critical homage to the monumental work of Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) and an important contribution to the methodology of history-writing. Centered on the polysemic nature of concepts, which are read as "'vehicles for thought'" studied in their pragmatic and communicative applications in society, Political Concepts and Time provides a stimulating …
The English Regicide and Patriarchalism
Cet article examine un ensemble particulier de réactions polémiques à l’assassinat du roi Charles Ier Stuart (1649), datant du début des années 1650. Le discours politique que cet ensemble présente est défini ici comme un absolutisme patriarcaliste. En se penchant sur l’œuvre de Claudius Salmasius (1649), de Robert Filmer (1652), et sur le discours de John Milton en relation avec ces deux premiers penseurs, on traitera des trois points suivants. …
A Thing or Two About Absolutism and Its Historiography
This essay closely examines the highly contested but widely employed historiographical category ‘absolutism’. Why are scholars so divided on whether it is even legitimate to use the term and, if they agree to do so, why are they still much at odds in explaining what it is? What are the main historiographical currents in the study of absolutism? Is it the same thing to speak of absolutism in regard to the practices of early modern European monarch…
Anti-methodology par excellence
Richard Cobb (1917–96) was a well-known historian of modern France whose numerous studies contributed to revising our interpretations of the revolutionary period and its impact on the people of both Paris and the provinces. Cobb was also a very knowledgeable, sharp, witty and deeply entertaining essayist and reviewer not just of all things French across a wide chronological spectrum, but of historical matters more generally. Controversial and unu…
Eavesdropper on the Past
Focused on the much-debated historiographical and academic status of intellectual history, this article addresses for the first time and in detail the methodological views of the British historian John Wyon Burrow (1935–2009). Making use both of his published works and of unpublished material left to the University of Sussex Library (including lectures, letters, academic projects and biographical sketches), its goal is to provide a thorough accou…
Isms and History
Intellectual History
Absolutism, History of
Ronald G. Asch. Sacral Kingship between Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment
From a “comparative and transnational” perspective (p. 3), Ronald G. Asch's book deals chronologically with the “common heritage of sacral and sacerdotal monarchy” in early modern France and England (p. 154). Warning against the assumption that the institution and the theory of monarchy underwent a significant change that saw the affirmation of secularization, Asch argues that the appeal to the sacred remained key to representations of kingship “…
Patriarchal Moments
International audience
The Intellectual Historian as Critic
This article examines the work of the intellectual historian and critic Stefan Collini (1947–). It illustrates his methodological approach to the study of history; traces the unexpected similarities between his intellectual practice and that of cultural critics as diverse as Matthew Arnold and William Empson; points to the differences in content and vision informing his manifold scholarly pursuits and those of other intellectual historians (e.g. …
Popularity in Early Modern England (ca. 1580–1642)
An important object of study in the historiography of early modern England, popularity has been examined in relation to figures such as the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham. It has been equally accounted for as the activity of MPs who fostered the cause of patriotic and freeborn Englishmen during the absolutist reigns of the early Stuarts. Popularity has also been dealt with when addressing resistance theory and people's power in pre-soci…
Archaeologist, coroner, detective, lawyer, translator or what? The (intellectual) historian, cultural criticism, audiences and the painterly eye
This article does three things. First, it briefly presents some relevant depictions of the (general) historian by past and present scholars, whilst also touching on the contested role of theory in historians' practice. Second, it illustrates a few distinct images by which the practice of the intellectual historian has been characterised. It thus argues that these images, which chiefly draw on recent work by Stefan Collini (1947-), provide a speci…
‘The History of Political Thought Above All’
Well-known for his work on absolutism, divine right theory, and his contextual reading of Hobbes’ ideas, Sommerville also published successful critical editions of Sir Robert Filmer and King James vi and I’s political writing. Sommerville’s engagement in key historiographical debates on early- modern British history, involving “opposing camps” of revisionists and post-revisionists, is less explored. Here, I focus on the question whether pre-Civil…
Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary, written by Holman, Christopher
Democratic Caesarism and the Cultural Critique of the Masses in Victorian Britain
This article reverses prevailing scholarly assumptions according to which in Victorian Britain Caesarism was neglected in both theoretical parlance and public discussion. It shows how intellectuals as ideologically different as Bagehot, Seeley, and Maine, as well as other (less well known) commentators writing in newspapers and periodicals, theorized about Caesarism–Napoleonism primarily according to cultural considerations. This means that they …
The Foundations of English Anti-Democratic Thought c.1630s–1880s
This article proposes a synchronic-diachronic reading of a specific antidemocratic language that shaped the intellectual history of England. It suggests that, from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, an ideologically diverse body of thinkers similarly and consistently criticized democracy not just as a government but as a plebeian way of life dominated by the licentious and cruel multitude-mob-mass — not by the people and not by…
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