The Political Bible in Early Modern England (Hardcover)

This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era's political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptural writings - treatise, sermon, commentary, annotation, poetry and political tract - to show how deeply embedded this political vocabulary remained, across the century, from top to bottom and across all religious positions. It shows how constitutional thought, in this most tumultuous era of civil war, regicide and republic, was forged on the Bible, and how writers ranging from King James, Joseph Hall or John Milton to Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes can be better understood in the context of such vigorous biblical discourse.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Release date:	December 2016
Authors:	Kevin Killeen
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	322
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-10797-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-107-10797-0
Barcode:	9781107107977

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