By Noel Malcolm
Acclaimed author and historian Noel Malcolm provides his sensational discovery of a brand new paintings by way of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg part within the Thirty Years' battle, translated through Hobbes from a Latin unique. Malcolm's publication explores a desirable episode in seventeenth-century background, illuminating either the perform of early glossy propaganda and the idea of "reason of nation"
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