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John of Salisbury on tyranny in the Policraticus. King Henry II’s quarrels with the church led to a recovery of Cicero’s and Orosius’s descriptions of tyranny. The result was a list of Nero’s tyrannical acts.
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K. Bollerman and C. Nederman, “John of Salisbury,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2016), online; and C. Nederman, “A Duty to Kill, John of Salisbury’s Theory of Tyrannicide,” Review of Politics, 50 (1988), 365–389. See Huizinga’s remarkably sensitive portrait in Men and Ideas, 159–177.
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John of Salisbury, Policraticus, tr. J. Dickinson (New York: Russell and Russell, 1963), Bk VIII, chap. 18.
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Policraticus, 354–56.
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Ranum, O. (2020). John of Salisbury on Tyranny in Policraticus. In: Tyranny from Ancient Greece to Renaissance France. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43185-3_7
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