Author : Jonathan Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2005-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521611954
The first full-scale study of this influential political writer for over a century.
Author : Janet Clare
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719073359
Drama of the English Republic is the first modern collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was nominally a republic or commonwealth. The five texts, three of which have been edited here for the first time, illustrate how the dramatists devised new aesthetics in response to the ideological concerns of the Republic.
Author : Luís Falcão
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1527558762
The book investigates the political thought of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), a historical character of the English civil wars, republic, protectorate, and Rump Parliament, who faced his trial and execution during the Exclusion Crisis. In his writings, Sidney mixed hugely different traditions of political philosophy: the modern natural rights, which were predominant in England in his generation, and the republicanism of Machiavelli. This volume will interest researchers in political philosophy, history of political thought and, particularly, republican theory. Its contribution to these topics explores the specificities of a thought that uses the language of natural rights and social contract and, on the other hand, the tumults, expansion and virtues of the republics.
Author : J. Rudolph
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2002-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1403990271
This book examines the Whig theory of resistance that emerged from the Revolution of 1688 in England, and presents an important challenge to the received opinion of Whig thought as confused and as inferior to the revolutionary principles set forth by John Locke. While a wealth of Whig literature is analyzed, Rudolph focuses upon the work of James Tyrrell, presenting the first full-length study of this seminal Whig theorist, and friend and colleague of John Locke. This book provides a compelling argument for the importance of Whig political thought for the history of liberalism.
Author : Dirk Wiemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1317081757
Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research.
Author : Ruth Elisabeth Mayers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0861932684
In a comprehensive examination of the restored Commonwealth, Dr. Mayers redresses that imbalance. She explores in turn the sources of the Republic's adverse reputation, Parliament's domestic priorities, internal dynamics, and relations with the Army, the City of London, and the English and Welsh provinces, as well as foreign policy, the challenge of ruling Scotland, Ireland and the colonies, and the sophisticated republican endeavour to imagine the future constitution and project a positive political identity through ceremonial, iconography and the print debates.
Author : Gary S. De Krey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1107320682
Articulate and restless London citizens were at the heart of political and religious confrontation in England from the Interregnum through the great crisis of Church and state that marked the last years of Charles II's reign. The same Reformed Protestant citizens who took the lead in toppling in toppling the Rump in 1659–60 took the lead in demanding a new Protestant settlement after 1678. In the interval, their demands for liberty of conscience challenged the Anglican order, whilst their arguments about consensual government in the city challenged loyalist political assumptions. Dissenting and Anglican identities developed in specific locales within the city, rooting the Whig and Tory parties of 1679–83 in neighbourhoods with different traditions and cultures. London and the Restoration integrates the history of the kingdom with that of its premier locality in the era of Dryden and Locke, analysing the ideas and the movements that unsettled the Restoration regime.
Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031624548
Author : James Vernon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1996-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521589413
A re-examination of the debates over the meaning of the English constitution, first published in 1996.
Author : Alex W. Barber
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1783275170
A discussion of the fascinating interplay between communication, politics and religion in early modern England suggesting a new framework for the politics of print culture. This book challenges the idea that the loss of pre-publication licensing in 1695 unleashed a free press on an unsuspecting political class, setting England on the path to modernity. England did not move from a position of complete control of the press to one of complete freedom. Instead, it moved from pre-publication censorship to post-publication restraint. Political and religious authorities and their agents continued to shape and manipulate information. Authors, printers, publishers and book agents were continually harassed. The book trade reacted by practicing self-censorship. At times of political calm, government and the book trade colluded in a policy of policing rather than punishment. The Restraint of the Press in England problematizes the notion of the birth of modernity, a moment claimed by many prominent scholars to have taken place at the transition from the seventeenth into the eighteenth century. What emerges from this study is not a steady move to liberalism, democracy or modernity. Rather, after 1695, England was a religious and politically fractured society, in which ideas of the sovereignty of the people and the power of public opinion were being established and argued about.
