British Political Thought, 1500-1660 - The Politics of the Post-Reformation

Focusing on theinteraction of religion and politics, this is a comprehensive chronological survey of the political thought of post-Reformation Britain which examines the work ofa wide range of thinkers.>

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND CONFESSIONAL POLITIES, 1500-1640
Henrician Political Thought
Reformation, Obedience and Resistance
Lawful Politics and Protestant Conformity: Political Thought in the Age of Elizabeth I
Peaceful Politics? Jacobean and Caroline England
PART TWO: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION, 1640-1660
Resistance and Royalism in the British Monarchies
Religion and Radicalism in the English Revolution
Thomas Hobbes
Republicanism and the English Commonwealth: Political Thought During the Interregnum
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Index.

About the author

Glenn Burgess is Professor of History at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought 1603-1642 (1992); Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (1996); British Political Thought 1500-1660 (2009); and many articles, essays and edited collections.

Product details

• Authors: C. Burgess, G. Burgess, Glenn Burgess
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2009
• EAN: 9780333574102
• ISBN: 978-0-333-57410-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: British Studies; British Studies Series; British Studies; British Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, History: specific events & topics, Political History, Political Science and International Studies, World Politics