Mary Nyquist
Biographic Data
| ID | 1000787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Nyquist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyquist |
| SIGNATURE | NYQUIST M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hobbes Reenvisions Hebraic and Christian History
In this essay, I examine Hobbes’s interpretation of Scriptural passages that figure prominently in contemporaneous political debates. Hobbes’s interpretative practices affirm his major systematic aims but also contribute to his inventive reenvisioning of Hebraic and Christian political history. The privileged position Hobbes gives Hebraic forms of rule together with his treatment of I Samuel 8 are motivated, in part, by a need to counter Aristotl…
Re-Membering Milton
This collection of essays gathers together disparate and often conflicting representations of Milton as author and cultural figure.
Re-Membering Milton
Base Slavery and Roman Yoke
Unlike ‘race’, with which ‘slavery’ is often associated in today’s society, early modern language relating to servitude is under-investigated. Using Shakespeare’s dramatic works as its primary archive, this chapter explores two forms of extra-legal slavery which, it is argued, facilitate discursive exchange between intra-European or intra-British modes of degradation and those employed in Anglo-colonialism. It begins with a study of ‘slave’ as a …
Hobbes, Slavery, and Despotical Rule
Hobbes's theorization of contractual absolutism relies upon a juridico-military doctrine relating to the enslavement of war captives, a doctrine that for Grotius has the authority of the law of nations. Although Hobbes's appeal to this doctrine cannot be understood apart from contemporaneous rhetorical appeals to figurative "slavery," his representation of a dramatic encounter involving the military victor's power of life and death enables him to…
Profuse, proud cleopatra”
Re-Membering Milton
Ever (wo)Man's Friend
Ever (wo)Man's Friend
Hobbes, Slavery, and Despotical Rule
Hobbes's theorization of contractual absolutism relies upon a juridico-military doctrine relating to the enslavement of war captives, a doctrine that for Grotius has the authority of the law of nations. Although Hobbes's appeal to this doctrine cannot be understood apart from contemporaneous rhetorical appeals to figurative "slavery," his representation of a dramatic encounter involving the military victor's power of life and death enables him to…
Ever (wo)Man's Friend
Ever (wo)Man's Friend
Re-Membering Milton
Profuse, proud cleopatra”
Hobbes, Slavery, and Despotical Rule
Hobbes's theorization of contractual absolutism relies upon a juridico-military doctrine relating to the enslavement of war captives, a doctrine that for Grotius has the authority of the law of nations. Although Hobbes's appeal to this doctrine cannot be understood apart from contemporaneous rhetorical appeals to figurative "slavery," his representation of a dramatic encounter involving the military victor's power of life and death enables him to…
Base Slavery and Roman Yoke
Unlike ‘race’, with which ‘slavery’ is often associated in today’s society, early modern language relating to servitude is under-investigated. Using Shakespeare’s dramatic works as its primary archive, this chapter explores two forms of extra-legal slavery which, it is argued, facilitate discursive exchange between intra-European or intra-British modes of degradation and those employed in Anglo-colonialism. It begins with a study of ‘slave’ as a …
Re-Membering Milton
This collection of essays gathers together disparate and often conflicting representations of Milton as author and cultural figure.
Re-Membering Milton
Hobbes Reenvisions Hebraic and Christian History
In this essay, I examine Hobbes’s interpretation of Scriptural passages that figure prominently in contemporaneous political debates. Hobbes’s interpretative practices affirm his major systematic aims but also contribute to his inventive reenvisioning of Hebraic and Christian political history. The privileged position Hobbes gives Hebraic forms of rule together with his treatment of I Samuel 8 are motivated, in part, by a need to counter Aristotl…
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