Trismegistus 'His Great Giant': A source for the titlepage of hobbes' Leviathan

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Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 366-370

  Prior, Charles W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1093/nq/51.4.366     Document Type: Note

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2. Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge, 1991), ch. 4
3. Joad Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge, 2003), ch. 3
4. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume IV, 1557-1695, ed. John Barnard and D. F. McKenzie with the assistance of Maureen Bell (Cambridge, 2002), ch. 23
5. Peter Lake with Michael Questier, The Anti-Christ's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England (Yale, 2002), ch. 1
6. This is covered in some detail by Corbett and Lightbown, The Comely Frontispiece, 219-30
7. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, OR The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common- Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge, 1991), 9
8. William Laud, A sermon preached before his Maiesty, on Tuesday the nineteenth of lune, at Wansted Anno. Dom. 1621. By D. Laud Dean of Glocester, one of his Maiesties chaplains in ordinary (London, 1621), 6
9. See Kevin Sharpe, 'A Commonwealth of Meanings: Languages, Analogues, Ideas and Polities', in Remapping Early Modern England: The Culture of Seventeenth-Century Politics (Cambridge, 2000), 38-123
10. The Comely Frontispiece, 229-30
11. M. M. Goldsmith, 'Hobbes's Ambiguous Polities', History of Political Thought, xi (Winter 1990), 639-73
12. Goldsmith, 'Ambiguous Polities', 639
13. M. M. Goldsmith, 'Picturing Hobbes's Politics: The Illustrations to Philosophicall Rudiments of Government and Society (1651)', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, xliv (1981), 232-7
14. Keith Brown, 'The Artist of the Leviathan Title-Page', British Library Journal, iv (1978), 24-36, at 26
15. Noel Malcolm, Aspects of Hobbes (Oxford, 2002), ch. 7
16. W. H. Greenleaf, Order, Empiricism, and Politics: Two Traditions of English Political Thought (Oxford, 1964), ch. 4
17. Glenn Burgess, The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought, 1603-1642 (Pennsylvania, 1992), 134, 156-7
18. Burgess, Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (Yale, 1996), 63, 70-1, 75
19. J. P. Sommerville, Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640 (London, 1999), 16, 17 n. 11, 31, 53
20. Charles W. A. Prior, '"The Regiment of the Church": Doctrine, Discipline, and History in Jacobean Ecclesiology, 1603-1625' (Ph.D diss., Queen's University, June 2003), ch. 2
21. Forset, Comparative Discourse, 56-7
22. Corpus Hermeticum, ed. A. D. Nock, trans. A. J. Festugière (Paris, 1945-54)
23. Quoted in Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London, 1964), 7
24. Arthur B. Ferguson, Clio Unbound: Perception of the Social and Cultural Past in Renaissance England (Duke University Press, 1979)
25. Yates, Giordano Bruno, 398-431
26. Isaac Casaubon, Isaaci Casauboni de rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI. Ad Cardinalis Baronii prolegomena in Annales, & primam eorum partem, de Domini Nostri Iesu Christi natiuitate, vita, Passione, assumtione. Londini: [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] ex officina Nortoniana apud Ioan. Billium, 1614
27. Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640 (Cambridge, 1995)
28. Charles W. A. Prior, 'Ancient and Reformed?: Thomas Bell and Jacobean Conformist Thought', Canadian Journal of History, xxxviii (December 2003), 425-38
29. Michael Questier, 'Loyalty, Religion, and State Power in Early Modern England: English Romanism and the Jacobean Oath of Allegiance', Historical Journal, xl (1997), 311-29
30. James VI and I contributed to the controversy on the subject, in his Triplici nodo, triplex cuneus. Or An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance (London, 1607)
31. For details of the controversy, see Peter Milward, Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age: A Survey of Printed Sources (London, 1978), ch. 3
32. Similarly, Hobbes remarked that 'hostility' against the commonwealth damaged all within the state (Leviathan, 212)
33. The divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII books. Translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English; by that learned divine Doctor Everard, London: printed by Robert White, for Tho. Brewster, and Greg. Moule, at the Three Bibles in the Poultrey, under Mildreds Church, 1649
34. Prior, 'The Regiment', ch. 2