Passer au contenu principal

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Choisissez le vocabulaire dans lequel chercher

Concept information

Terme préférentiel

multitude  

Définition

  • In the vocabulary of the Roman historians Sallust, Tacitus, and Quintus Curtius and the philosophers Seneca and Cicero, the term multitudo is one among many to refer, more or less pejoratively, to the crowd, the populace, or the masses. It appears in the margins of some philosophical texts from the Middle Ages, but it is only in the context of early modern political thought that it becomes a major concept (in its Latin and English form). [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Multitude]

Appartient au groupe

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZZ47DSK8-4

Télécharger ce concept :