Zeitlin, Samuel Garrett; (2025) Peace and Treaties in the Political Thought of Francis Bacon. In: Lazzarini, Isabella and Piffanelli, Luciano and Pirillo, Diego, (eds.) Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West. (pp. 378-395). Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

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The chapter argues that for Francis Bacon (1561–1626), across his political, philosophic, and literary career, the criterion for one’s own peace is the weakness or incapacity or impotence of one’s opponents. The chapter proceeds in two parts. The first outlines Francis Bacon’s view of peace, particularly in relation to the Hobbesian view of peace which arises, in part, in opposition to it. The second lays out Bacon’s view of peace in relation to his positions on several of the foreign policy issues of his own time, particularly treaties and empire, and the polemical uses to which Bacon put his view of peace to critique and criticise the 1604 Treaty of London.

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