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Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of
developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English
republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought
that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn,
the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of
seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their
field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The
contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to
bring these approaches together in a number of case studies
covering republican language, republican literary and political
culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the
state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with
three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the
linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history
approaches to English republicanism, including both literary
culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the
volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican
thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and
diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political
research.
European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives
on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the
Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century
English thinkers and political events. Looking both at political
ideas and at the people that shaped them, the collection examines
English republican thought in its wider European context during the
later seventeenth and eighteenth century. In a number of case
studies, the contributors assess the different ways in which
English republican ideas were not only shaped by the thought of the
ancients, but also by contemporary authors from all over Europe,
such as Hugo Grotius or Christoph Besold. They demonstrate that
English republican thinkers did not only act in dialogue with
Continental authors and scholars, their ideas in turn also left a
long-lasting legacy in Europe as they were received, transformed
and put to new uses by thinkers in France, Italy, the Netherlands,
Germany and Poland. Far from being an exclusively transatlantic
affair, as much of the established scholarship suggests, English
republican thought also left its legacy on the European Continent,
finding its way into wider debates about the rights and wrongs of
the English Civil War and the nature of government, while later
translations of English republican works also influenced the key
thinkers of the French Revolution and the liberals of the
nineteenth century. Bringing together a range of fresh and original
essays by British and European scholars in the field of early
modern intellectual history and English studies, this collection of
essays revises a one-sided approach to English republicanism and
widens the scope of study beyond linguistic and national boundaries
by looking at English republicans and their continental networks
and legacy.
European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives
on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the
Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century
English thinkers and political events. Looking both at political
ideas and at the people that shaped them, the collection examines
English republican thought in its wider European context during the
later seventeenth and eighteenth century. In a number of case
studies, the contributors assess the different ways in which
English republican ideas were not only shaped by the thought of the
ancients, but also by contemporary authors from all over Europe,
such as Hugo Grotius or Christoph Besold. They demonstrate that
English republican thinkers did not only act in dialogue with
Continental authors and scholars, their ideas in turn also left a
long-lasting legacy in Europe as they were received, transformed
and put to new uses by thinkers in France, Italy, the Netherlands,
Germany and Poland. Far from being an exclusively transatlantic
affair, as much of the established scholarship suggests, English
republican thought also left its legacy on the European Continent,
finding its way into wider debates about the rights and wrongs of
the English Civil War and the nature of government, while later
translations of English republican works also influenced the key
thinkers of the French Revolution and the liberals of the
nineteenth century. Bringing together a range of fresh and original
essays by British and European scholars in the field of early
modern intellectual history and English studies, this collection of
essays revises a one-sided approach to English republicanism and
widens the scope of study beyond linguistic and national boundaries
by looking at English republicans and their continental networks
and legacy.
Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth
Century is the first full-length study of the republican Henry
Neville as country gentleman, politician, political thinker, rebel
and libeller. It traces the development of Neville's political
thought from the English Civil Wars to the Exclusion Crisis and
beyond, while also challenging the way in which the history of
ideas has been conceptualised in recent years by discussing
political theory alongside cheap libels, shams and poetry. While
studies of early modern English republicanism tend to focus on the
Interregnum, Neville's Plato redivivus, which promoted a
restructuring of the political order, was only published after the
1660 Restoration of the monarchy. This study therefore draws
attention to long-term continuities in English republican thought
and introduces the concept of anti-patriarchalism to focus on what
Neville and other republicans writing before 1649 or after 1660 had
in common. This book will be of interest to students and academics
of Early Modern studies -- .
The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of
English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda,
where Charles II promised to forgive those who had acted against
his father and the monarchy during the Civil War and Interregnum,
opponents of the Stuart regime felt unsafe, and many were actively
persecuted. Nevertheless, their ideas lived on in the political
underground of England and in the exile networks they created
abroad. While much of the historiography of English republicanism
has focused on the British Isles and the legacy of the English
Revolution in the American colonies, this study traces the lives,
ideas and networks of three seventeenth-century English republicans
who left England for the European continent after the Restoration.
Based on sources from a range of English and continental European
archives, Gaby Mahlberg explores the lived experiences of these
three exiles - Edmund Ludlow in Switzerland, Henry Neville in
Italy, and Algernon Sidney - for a truly transnational perspective
on early modern English republicanism.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Patriarchalism is omnipresent in Western culture and it pervades
the texts that have shaped this culture. From the creation story in
the Bible to the ancient authors, from the Church fathers to the
treatises of Enlightenment philosophers, right up to modern
fiction, male authority over women, children and other dependents
has shaped the nature of human relationships and the discourses
about these relationships. This collection of short essays offers
fresh and novel readings of key texts in the history of
patriarchalism as a concept of power. The texts selected are from
political, religious and literary works and together the readings
add new insights to a tradition that has never gone uncontested,
yet is unlikely to disappear soon.
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