Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England

This book provides an account of early modern political culture by emphasizing the centrality of humanist rhetoric in it.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Rhetoric, Citizenship and Popularity: 1. Rhetoric, power and citizenship; 2. Rhetoric and popularity; 3. Rhetoric, news and politics; 4. The adversary politics of rhetoric; Part II. Rhetoric, Politics and Parliaments: 5. Rhetoric, politics and the people in the 1570s; 6. Rhetoric, royal marriage and John Stubbe; 7. Rhetoric and Elizabethan parliaments; 8. Rhetoric, the Union and impositions in parliament, 1607-10; 9. Rhetoric and adversary politics in the 1620s; 10. Rhetoric, war and the grievances of the people in parliament, 1625-8; Epilogue: rhetoric, monarchy and sedition.

About the author

Markku Peltonen is Professor of General History (chair founded in 1640) at the University of Helsinki. He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Mellon Fellow at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California and President of the Finnish Historical Society. His publications include Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570–1640 (Cambridge, 1995) and The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour (Cambridge, 2003). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (Cambridge, 1996).

Summary

Markku Peltonen examines the centrality of humanist rhetoric in the pre-revolutionary educational system and its vital contribution to the political culture of the period. He argues that humanism was crucial to the development of the participatory character of English politics and an important background for the politics of the period.

Product details

• Authors: Markku Peltonen, Markku (University of Helsinki) Peltonen, Peltonen Markku
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2016
• EAN: 9781316635612
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63561-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; England, History, History of Ideas, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599