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Subjects and Sovereigns reexamines the traditional bond between subject and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Author : Hannah Weiss Muller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0190465816
Subjects and Sovereigns reexamines the traditional bond between subject and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Author : Corinne Comstock Weston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521892865
The book charts the establishment of the modern idea of parliamentary sovereignty.
Author : Paolo Sarpi
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 1722
Category : Church and state
ISBN :
Author : PAOLO. SARPI
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781033510858
Author : Daniel Cadman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317052110
Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as ’closet drama’, during the years 1590-1613. It is the first book-length study since 1924 to consider these plays - the dramatic works of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, along with the Roman tragedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd - as a coherent group. Daniel Cadman suggests these works interrogate the relations between sovereigns and subjects during the early modern period by engaging with the humanist discourses of republicanism and stoicism. Cadman argues that the texts under study probe various aspects of this dynamic and illuminate the ways in which stoicism and republicanism provide essential frameworks for negotiating this relationship between the marginalized courtier and the absolute sovereign. He demonstrates how aristocrats and courtiers, such as Sidney, Greville, Alexander, and Cary, were able to use the neo-Senecan form to consider aspects of their limited political agency under an absolute monarch, while others, such as Brandon and Daniel, respond to similarly marginalized positions within both political and patronage networks. In analyzing how these plays illuminate various aspects of early modern political culture, this book addresses several gaps in the scholarship of early modern drama and explores new contexts in relation to more familiar writers, as well as extending the critical debate to include hitherto neglected authors.
Author : HardPress
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781314366211
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Paolo Sarpi
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 1720
Category : Kings and rulers
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Author : Daniel Cadman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317052129
Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as ’closet drama’, during the years 1590-1613. It is the first book-length study since 1924 to consider these plays - the dramatic works of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, along with the Roman tragedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd - as a coherent group. Daniel Cadman suggests these works interrogate the relations between sovereigns and subjects during the early modern period by engaging with the humanist discourses of republicanism and stoicism. Cadman argues that the texts under study probe various aspects of this dynamic and illuminate the ways in which stoicism and republicanism provide essential frameworks for negotiating this relationship between the marginalized courtier and the absolute sovereign. He demonstrates how aristocrats and courtiers, such as Sidney, Greville, Alexander, and Cary, were able to use the neo-Senecan form to consider aspects of their limited political agency under an absolute monarch, while others, such as Brandon and Daniel, respond to similarly marginalized positions within both political and patronage networks. In analyzing how these plays illuminate various aspects of early modern political culture, this book addresses several gaps in the scholarship of early modern drama and explores new contexts in relation to more familiar writers, as well as extending the critical debate to include hitherto neglected authors.
Author : Emer de Vattel
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 1856
Category : International law
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Author : Christian G. Fritz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139467174
American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.