Patrick Coby
Auteur van Thomas Cromwell: Machiavellian Statecraft and the English Reformation
Over de Auteur
J. Patrick Coby is professor of government at Smith College.
Fotografie: Smith College profile picture.
Werken van Patrick Coby
Thomas Cromwell: Machiavellian Statecraft and the English Reformation (2009) 22 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Coby, John Patrick
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Coby, J. Patrick
- Geboortedatum
- 1948
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Opleiding
- University of Dallas (BA|English)
University of Dallas (MA, PhD|Political Science) - Beroepen
- Professor of Government
- Organisaties
- Smith College
- Korte biografie
- Smith College profile:
I graduated from the University of Dallas with a major in English and a minor in Art. I attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in City and Regional Planning. But not liking the program, I returned to the University of Dallas to do a Masters and a Ph.D. in Political Science. I taught at Kenyon College in Ohio for five years, then at Idaho State University for two years, before coming to Smith College in 1985. My teaching areas include political philosophy, especially ancient and early modern political philosophy, and American political thought.
I do research and write on some of the major figures of Western political thought: Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Marx -- and Shakespeare. Future research will focus on American political thought and on the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 4
- Leden
- 47
- Populariteit
- #330,643
- Waardering
- 3.0
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 13
I read this book back-to-back with Schofield's biography and I found Coby's account of Cromwell's life and his death not only biased but unsubtle. Nothing new is added from what we know trough popular culture, which is a pity, and I was surprised by the author taking things out of context: most notably, the use of the word "Catholic" in the scaffold speech, taken to mean the Roman Church and not the use it was given in Lutheran circles in the 16the century.
Lastly, and something always important to me, the scarce bibliography was frustrating and something I always dislike in non-fiction books.… (meer)