Tyranny from Ancient Greece to Renaissance France

Orest Ranum is professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA, and the author of several books including Artisans of Glory (1980), The Fronde, a French Revolution (1993), and Les bienfaits, la gratitude et l'action politique (2018)

Part I Antique Understandings of Tyranny.- 1. The Athens of Plato, Aristotle, and Xenophon.- 2. Tyranny and Despotism in Plato's Republic and Laws.- 3. Aristotle on Tyranny in the Politics.- 4. Xenophon on Tyranny in Hiero.- 5. Seneca the Younger on Tyranny in On Mercy.- Part II Three Medieval Commentators on Tyranny.- 6. Mimetic Impulses and Early Receptions.- 7. John of Salisbury on Tyranny in Policraticus.- 8. Aquinas on Tyranny in the Regime of Princes and in the Summa Theologica.- 9. Giles of Rome on Tyranny in His Regime of Princes.- Part III Recovering Plato and Aristotle on Tyranny in the Renaissance.- 10. Imminence of the Past.- 11. Machiavelli on Tyranny in the Prince and the Discourses.- 12. Seyssel on Tyranny in the Monarchy of France.- 13. Guillaume Budé on Tyranny in the Education of the Prince.- 14. Erasmus on Tyranny in the Education of a Christian Prince.- 15. Thomas More on Tyranny in the History of Richard III.- Part IV A Time of Troubles in France, 1570-1590.- 16. The Valois Monarchy in Political Thought and Political Theology.- 17. Tyranny in Hotman's Franco-Gallia.- 18. Étienne de la Boétie on Tyranny in Voluntary Servitude.- 19. Bèze on Tyranny in the Right of Magistrates.- 20. Bodin on Tyranny in the Six Books of the Republic.- 21. The Vindiciae contra tyrannos on Tyranny.- 22. Mariana on Tyranny.- 23. Jean Boucher on Tyranny in the True History of Henry de Valois.