2012 - “‘The Lord Alone Shall Be King of America’: European Hebraism & the Republican Turn of 1776”

Thursday, November 15, 2012
Eck Vistors Center Auditorium

Eric Nelson, Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University, received the 2012 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for his book The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, published by Harvard University Press. He delivered his prize lecture, “‘The Lord Alone Shall Be King of America’: European Hebraism and the Republican Turn of 1776,” when accepting the award. Nelson’s research focuses on the history of political thought in early-modern Europe and America, and on the implications of that history for debates in contemporary political theory.

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