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The aim of this Element is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. It argues that Indigenous concepts of sovereignty were rooted in complex metaphorical language, in historical understandings of alliance, and in mobility in a landscape of layered interconnections of power. Where some versions of the interpretive paradigm of settler colonialism emphasise the violent 'elimination of the native', this work reveals that diplomatic transactions between the Iroquois Confederacy and British colonial and imperial agents reveal a hybrid language of alliance, sovereignty and territory. These languages and concepts of inter-cultural diplomacy provide contexts that suggest a more nuanced and dynamic relationship between colonialism and Indigenous power.

This essay offers a re-examination of the concept of Erastianism as an explanatory tool in discussions of church and state. It focuses in particular on three texts – by Pierre du Moulin, Thomas Cobbet and John Milton - that took up the question of the nature of civil power in the sphere of religion. Based on this, the essay argues that the term 'Erastianism' obscures the complexity and nuance of arguments about religious politics in the civil war period. It concludes by suggesting that we should instead consider these debates as contributions to discourse on civil religion.

Introduction: religion and the historiography of the English civil War / Glenn Burgess -- Sacred kingship in France and England in the age of the Wars of Religion: from disenchantment to re-enchantment? / Ronald Asch -- The continental counter reformation and the plausibility of the popish, 1638-1642 / Robert Von Friedeburg -- The mind of William Laud / Alan Cromartie -- Cannons and constitutions / Charles W.A. Prior -- Prayer Book and protestation: anti-popery, anti-Puritanism and the outbreak of the English Civil War / Michael Braddick -- Sir Simonds d'Ewes: a "respectable conservative" or a "fiery spirit" / J. Sears McGee -- Wars of religion and royalist political thought / Glenn Burgess -- Natural law and holy war in the English Revolution / Sarah Mortimer -- Oliver Cromwell on religion and resistance / Rachel Foxley -- Oliver Cromwell and the cause of civil and religious liberty / Blair Worden -- England's exodus: the Civil War as a war of deliverance / John Coffey -- Restoration anti-Catholicism: a prejudice in motion / Jeffrey R. Collins -- Renaming england's Wars of Religion / John Morrill