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Commonwealth principles : republican writing of the English revolution / Jonathan Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Jonathan, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Political science--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Political science.
- Republicanism--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Republicanism.
- Radicalism--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Radicalism.
- Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660--Historiography.
- Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660--Sources.
- Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 402 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The republican writing of the English revolution has attracted a major scholarly literature. Yet there has been no single treatment of the subject as a whole, nor has it been adequately related to the larger upheaval from which it emerged, or to the larger body of radical thought of which it became the most influential component. Commonwealth Principles addresses these needs, and Jonathan Scott goes beyond existing accounts organized around a single key concept (whether constitutional, linguistic or moral) or author (usually James Harrington) to analyse this body of writing in full context. Linking various social, political and intellectual agendas Professor Scott explains why, when classical republicanism came to England, it did so in the moral service of an explicitly religious revolution. The resulting ideology hinged not upon political language, or constitutional form, but Christian humanist moral philosophy applied in the practical context of an attempted radical reformation of manners.
- Contents:
- Classical Republicanism
- The cause of God
- Discourses of a commonwealth
- Old worlds and new
- Analysis
- The political theory of rebellion
- Constitutions
- Liberty
- Virtue
- The politics of time
- Empire
- Chronology
- Republicans and Levellers 1603-1649
- The English republic 1649-1653
- Healing and settling 1653-58
- The good old cause 1658-1660
- Anatomies of tyranny 1660-1683
- Republicans and Whigs 1680-1725.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-16377-3
- 1-280-74975-X
- 0-511-26499-2
- 0-511-26571-9
- 0-511-26343-0
- 0-511-31742-5
- 0-511-49073-9
- 0-511-26424-0
- OCLC:
- 229991297
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