Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Topics might include: ancient tyranny theory & Renaissance reinterpretation; apologist & reason-of-state traditions; tyranny in Islamicate & Ottoman traditions; colonial encounter; visual & juridical dimensions; gender & sovereignty. All disciplines & career stages welcome.
Tyranny was never simply order's antithesis — it was among its most persistent features, sometimes the force that order strained against, sometimes the force that held it together, and not always distinguishable from either.