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Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle: A Study in the Mutuality of Patronage before the Establishment of the Royal Society

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Sarasohn, Lisa T.

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This study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal...

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without compulsion: Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 62
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (review)

Creator:

Sarasohn, Lisa T.

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of the system of signatures: see the second chap- ter of The Order of Things, trans. Alan Sheridan