Violence and Covenant in Machiavelli’s Thinking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Seminal Ideas
5. From Divine Violence to Religious Violence 19
6. Holy Scripture, Theology, and Violence 35
7. “Nothing violent can last”: Nature, Violence, and Political Legitimacy in a Scholastic Formula 55
8. Tyrannicide as an Act of Divine Justice 63
9. II. Changing Meanings
10. “Violentia” and the Devil 81
11. Violence and Covenant in Machiavelli’s Thinking 95
12. Peace According to the Political Theologians of the Holy Roman Empire at the End of the Thirty Years’ War 107
13. III. Theories and Practices
14. Reconquista and Muslim Vassals 127
15. The Global Expansion of Christian Violence in the Old and the New World 143
16. Religion and Violence in the Christian Mission in Early Modern Japan 159
17. The Privateering by the Knights of Saint Stephen against Turks and Barbary Pirates 181
18. Contributors 197