The Political Thought Of The English Free State 1649 1653
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The Political Thought of the English Free State 1649 1653
Author | : Markku Peltonen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2022-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009212045 |
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Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism, drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era. The book also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy.
God s Instruments
Author | : Blair Worden |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2012-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191624414 |
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The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of the only republic in English history. There were startling and unexpected developments, too, in religion and ideas: the spread of unorthodox doctrines; the attainment of a wide measure of liberty of conscience; and new thinking about the moral and intellectual bases of politics and society. God's Instruments centres on the principal instrument of radical change, Oliver Cromwell, and on the unfamiliar landscape of the decade he dominated, from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649 to the return of the Stuart dynasty in 1660. Its theme is the relationship between the beliefs or convictions of politicians and their decisions and actions. Blair Worden explores the biblical dimension of Puritan politics; the ways that a belief in the workings of divine providence affected political conduct; Cromwell's commitment to liberty of conscience and his search for godly reformation through educational reform; the constitutional premises of his rule and those of his opponents in the struggle for supremacy between parliamentary and military rule; and the relationship between conceptions of civil and religious liberty. The conflicts Worden reconstructs are placed in the perspective of long-term developments, of which many historians have lost sight. The final chapters turn to the guiding convictions of two writers at the heart of politics, John Milton and the royalist Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Material from previously published essays, much of it expanded and extensively revised, comes together with newly written chapters to bring fresh evidence and argument to a period of lively debate and interest.
Inventing a Republic
Author | : Sean Kelsey |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 071905057X |
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The character and appearance of English governance were changed utterly in 1649, when Charles I was executed and the monarchy abolished. At a stroke, legitimate authority in the nation was stripped of the charismatic focus from whence it had derived much of its apparently ageless dignity. This volume provides a study of how England's political culture was reinvented by the new parliamentary republic. It describes how government members colonized and revived the abandoned royal palace at Whitehall, and describes the imaginative and consistently iconographic and ceremonial languages with which they replaced the imagery and spectacle of the monarchy. It makes a case for the comprehensive revision of the historio-graphical preconceptions surrounding England's only lengthy period of kinglessness.
The Varieties of British Political Thought 1500 1800
Author | : J. G. A. Pocock,Gordon J. Schochet,Lois Schwoerer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521574986 |
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A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.
English Political Thought 1603 1660
Author | : John William Allen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : OCLC:123710037 |
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Politics and Politiques in Sixteenth Century France
Author | : Emma Claussen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108844178 |
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Explores conceptions of politics in early modern France, and the controversies the word 'politique' attracted during the Wars of Religion.
A Union for Empire
Author | : John Robertson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1995-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521431132 |
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This volume of essays explores for the first time the intellectual context of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. Challenging the received view of the Union as a simple political job, it argues instead that the Union was a landmark in the history of political thought. The opening contributions investigate the ideas of union, universal monarchy and empire current in Europe and Britain before 1707. There follow chapters devoted to intellectual and religious developments in Scotland between the Restoration and the Union, before attention is focused on the issues of sovereignty at the centre of the Union debate itself. The volume concludes by studying the aftermath of the debate in eighteenth-century discussions of Britain's relations to Ireland and the North American colonies. Underlining the vitality of Scottish intellectual life before the Enlightenment, the volume also gives unprecedented attention to the English view of the Union, to its European setting and to its consequences for the subsequent understanding of the British Empire. The result is a major contribution to the history of British (including Anglo-Irish and American) political thought, and more generally to the history of ideas of union and empire, which will be of wide interest.
Explaining the English Revolution
Author | : Mark Stephen Jendrysik |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055822590 |
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As we search for greater understanding of the origins of liberalism, religious toleration, and modern democratic thought, Mark Jendrysik's timely work examines the political and religious ideals that buttressed the first 'modern' revolution. Explaining the English Revolution studies the years 1649 to 1653, from regicide to the establishment of the Cromwellian Commonwealth, during which time English writers "took stock" of a disordered England stripped of the traditional ideas of political, moral, and social order and considered the possibilities for a politically and religiously reordered state. Jendrysik provides--through a rich comparative analysis of the work of Thomas Hobbes and his contemporaries Filmer, Winstanley, Cromwell, and Milton--a new understanding of the Civil War-era intelligentsia's assessment of the crisis in the body politic and their varied prescriptions and plans for a new post-revolutionary England.