Sidney and Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23444192 |
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| Authors | Robert E Stillman (University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 605-618 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198859451.013.36 |
| OpenAlex | W4406757398 |
| ISBN | 9780198859451 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
What is most important about Philip Sidney’s Europe can be best expressed by a paradox: Sidney needed his cosmopolitan education in Europe in order to think beyond it. The move beyond was as pragmatic as assailing Spanish tyranny by a global assault against Spanish trade, and as visionary as an Arcadian world in which tyranny could be disarmed by force of natural law. Moving chronologically from John Buxton and Charles Osborn to Beatrice Nicollier de Weck and Alan Stewart, this chapter traces a history of critical responses to Sidney’s European travels and their consequence for interpreting his poetry, politics, and piety. That history culminates in assessing the continuing importance of Roger Kuin’s magisterial edition of The Correspondence. The chapter privileges Sidney’s education by Hubert Languet—Philippe Duplessis-Mornay’s travelling Odysseus for the cause of Reformed culture—as the key figure for exploring his developing mentalité.
African history and culture studies · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy
| Highly cited | No |
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