Review of: Skinner K. Sources of modern political thought in 2 vol. Vol. 1: The Renaissance / Trans. from Eng. A. A. Oleynikov. 464 p.; Vol. 2: CONTENTS The Reformation / Trans. from Eng. A. A. Yakovlev. 568 p. M., 2018.

Abstract

The Russian translation of Quentin Skinner's study, first published forty years ago, raises the legitimate question of its relevance and the context which this two-volume work has inevitably acquired since the first edition. While the answer to the first question is evident - it is so far the only special fundamental study of Renaissance and Reformation political thought in Russian-language literature (late thirteenth or early sixteenth century) - the context is more complex.
The aim of this work is to solve three problems: the analysis of sources on the history of political thought of the Middle Ages and early Modernity, the formulation on the basis of these texts of the New European concept of "state" and the presentation of the author's special approach in the field of interpretation of historical texts.

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