Royalists and Patriots
Royalists and Patriots

Author: J.P. Sommerville

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1317882083

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This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining the main political theories in c.17th England - the Divine Right of Kings, government by consent, and the ancient constitution - he considers their impact on actual events. He draws on major political thinkers like Hobbes and Locke, but also on lesser but more representative figures, to explore what was new in these ideas and what was merely the common currency of the age. This major new edition incorporates all the latest thinking on the subject.

Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640
Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640

Author: J. P. Sommerville

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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The years before the Civil War were a critical period in England's political and constitutional development, and have been the subject of vigorous debate. Some historians argue that the Civil War had few long-term origins, while others discern deeper roots. Dr Sommerville here looks at the contemporary view of politics and at the ideologies, both in theory and in action, which contributed to the turbulent years before 1640.

Conflict in Early Stuart England
Conflict in Early Stuart England

Author: Richard Cust

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-22

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1317885015

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This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.

Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558-1688
Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558-1688

Author: Barbara J. Shapiro

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2012-11-07

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0804784582

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This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688. Shapiro argues that an assessment of English political culture requires an examination of all means by which this culture was expressed and communicated. While the discussion focuses primarily on genres such as the sermon, newsbook, poetry, and drama, it also considers the role of events and institutions. Shapiro is the first to explore and elucidate the entire web of communication in early modern English political life.

Visions of Politics
Visions of Politics

Author: Quentin Skinner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-09-16

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780521589253

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The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the political thought of the Italian renaissance, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. All of Professor Skinner's work is characterised by philosophical power, limpid clarity, and elegance of exposition; these essays, many of which are now recognised classics, provide a fascinating and convenient digest of the development of his thought. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474

Press Censorship in Jacobean England
Press Censorship in Jacobean England

Author: Cyndia Susan Clegg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-16

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1139430068

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This 2001 book examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received during the reign of King James I. It challenges prevailing attitudes that press censorship in Jacobean England differed little from either the 'whole machinery of control' enacted by the Court of Star Chamber under Elizabeth or the draconian campaign implemented by Archbishop Laud, during the reign of Charles I. Cyndia Clegg, building on her earlier study Press Censorship in Elizabethan England, contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under King James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. The book combines historical analysis of documents with literary reading of censored texts and exposes the kinds of tensions that really mattered in Jacobean culture. It will be an invaluable resource for literary scholars and historians alike.

The Stuart Court and Europe
The Stuart Court and Europe

Author: Robert Malcolm Smuts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-28

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780521554398

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This 1996 collection of essays discusses the European dimension of society, politics and culture at the Stuart court.

A Confusion of Tongues
A Confusion of Tongues

Author: Charles W. A. Prior

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0199698252

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A study of the political and religious ideas that contributed to the collapse of the authority of Charles I in 1642. Aids the historical understanding of the causes and nature of the English civil war, and challenges two of the dominant interpretations of the conflict.

James I
James I

Author: S.J. Houston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1317894359

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Since publication in 1973 James I has established itself as one of the most popular short accounts of James I's reign. The First Edition was described by John Morrill as `a far better, shrewder, more incisive account of the reign' than the available competition Seventeenth-Century Britain, 1980. The text has now been entirely rewritten to take account of the latest historiography and students will continue to welcome this accessible analysis of the problems, weaknesses and achievements of James I as it enables them to participate in the revisionist arguments that make the study of this period so stimulating.

Literary Culture in Jacobean England
Literary Culture in Jacobean England

Author: P. Salzman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-09-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0230513204

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This book offers an unparalleled depth of historical research by surveying the extraordinary richness of literary culture in a single year. Paul Salzman examines what is written, published, performed and, in some cases, even spoken during 1621 in Britain. Well-known works by writers such as Donne, Burton, Middleton, and Ralegh, are examined alongside hitherto unknown works in a huge variety of genres: plays, poems, romances, advice books, sermons, histories, parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations. This is a work of literary history that greatly enhances knowledge of what it was like to read, write and listen in early modern Britain.