British Political Thought, 1500-1660: The Politics of the Post-Reformation
In: British Studies Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue: Humanism and Political Thought before the Reformation, 1500-30 -- Humanism and the Best State of a Commonwealth -- Commonwealth Ideals and the Reformation -- PART I Political Thought and Confessional Polities, 1530-1640 -- 1 Royal Supremacy and the Obedience of Subjects: the Political Thought of the English Reformation, 1530-53 -- The Henrician Reformation and the Royal Supremacy -- An Ambiguous Legacy -- King and parliament -- Politics and religion -- Obedience and Reform in the Reign of Edward VI, 1547-53 -- 2 Resistance and Commonwealth: the Political Thought of Marian England (1553-8) and the Scottish Reformation (1560-80) -- The Marian Exiles -- The Scottish Reformation -- 3 Lawful Conformity and its Critics: Political Thought in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603 -- Conformist Protestantism -- Catholics, Puritans and the Casuistry of Obedience -- Catholic resistance theory -- Puritanism and political thought -- The casuistry of obedience -- Richard Hooker and the 1590s -- 4 Peaceful Politics? Jacobean and Caroline Britain, 1590-1640 -- James VI & -- I and Divine Right Kingship -- The Regal Union and the Ancient Constitution -- Critical Voices -- Civic humanism -- Patriarchal kingship -- Royal supremacy -- PART II Political Thought and Religious Revolution, 1640-60 -- 5 Resistance and Royalism in the British Monarchies -- Covenanter Political Thought -- English Parliamentarians -- Varieties of Royalist Propaganda -- Later-Parliamentarian (Independent) Political Thought -- The development of Parliamentarian political ideas, 1643-9 -- Regicidal Independency and Presbyterian Monarchism -- 6 Religion, 'Radicalism' and the English Revolution -- Radicalism and the Political Realm: the Levellers and Henry Ireton -- Religious Radicalism.