Reason of State, Propaganda and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in
seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of reason of state.


Author: Noel Malcolm
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.78w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780199215935

About the Author

Noel Malcolm is a General Editor of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes. He has been a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Foreign Editor of The Spectator, and political columnist of the Daily Telegraph. He left journalism in 1995 in order to concentrate on scholarly research and writing. Since then he has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, and Carlyle Lecturer at Oxford University. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.

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