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Counsel and command in early modern English thought / Joanne Paul.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paul, Joanne, author.
- Series:
- Ideas in context ; 125.
- Ideas in context ; 125
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political consultants--Great Britain--History.
- Political consultants.
- Prerogative, Royal--Great Britain--History.
- Prerogative, Royal.
- Legitimacy of governments--Great Britain--History.
- Legitimacy of governments.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "There was a deep-seated tension present in early modern English political thought: the 'paradox of counsel'.2 On the one hand, it was a long-standing requirement that monarchs receive counsel in order to legitimize their rule. On the other, this condition had the potential to undermine their authority if the monarch was required to act on the counsel given. In other words, if counsel is obligatory, it impinges upon sovereignty. If it is not, it then becomes irrelevant and futile. The working out of this essential problem defines much of the political thinking produced during the English 'monarchy of counsel', roughly from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the end of the English Civil War.3 It is the purpose of this book to document attempts to grapple with this fundamental problem: the necessarily challenging relationship between counsel and command"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The humanist counsellor
- The right-timing of counsel
- Machiavellian counsel
- Political prudence
- Late Tudor counsellors
- Reason of state and the counsellor
- Counsel, command and the Stuarts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Paul, Joanne. Counsel and command in early modern English thought.
- ISBN:
- 9781108490177
- 1108490174
- OCLC:
- 1119746051
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