Tacitus, academic politics, and regicide in the reign of Charles I: The tragedy of Dr. Isaac Dorislaus.

Late in the sixteenth century the Tacitist movement reached England, and Tacitus gradually became an intellectual rallying point with political dissenters as he had already done on the continent. When the poet-statesman Fulke Greville founded the first chair of ancient history at Cambridge in 1627,...

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Published in:International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 153 - 194
Main Author: Mellor, Ronald
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Fall2004
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost