Richelieu and Reason of State

ISBN: 9780691619392 出版年：2015 页码：562 Church, William Farr Princeton University Press

The problem of the relationship between moral principles and political necessity, of the purposes of power and the justice of means, has always been a central theme in european history. The ministry of cardinal richelieu is a focal point for the problem because it existed during a time when the continuing strength of religiously based political ideas and the growth of the modern state converged. In this major study william f. Church examines richelieu's policies, his efforts to justify them, and the extensive debates they occasioned.