Liberty Authority Formality

Author : John Morrow
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845403966

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Liberty, Authority, Formality by John Morrow Pdf

The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English to re-evaluate the significance of movements and individuals who have had a prominent place in the historiography of the English Revolution. Davis's analyses of groups like the Levellers and individuals like Gerrard Winstanley and Oliver Cromwell has reoriented the inquiry around the contemporary moral themes of liberty, authority and formality-around which concepts this volume engages.

Author : James Colin Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319622323

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Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 by James Colin Davis Pdf

This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined ‘realities’. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a traditional society; the necessity of fiction both in rejecting and constructing the status quo; and the circumstances in which radical and utopian fictions appear to become imperative. In particular, it closely examines non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley’s thought; millennialism and utopianism as mutual critiques; form and substance in early modern utopianism/radicalism; Thomas More’s utopian theatre of interests; and James Harrington and the political necessity of narrative fiction. This detailed analysis underpins observations about the longer term historical significance and meaning of both radicalism and utopianism.

Author : Matt Edge
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845407070

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On Liberty and Peace - Part 2: Peace by Matt Edge Pdf

The author writes: In this project I set out to provide an answer to two fundamental questions of political philosophy. How can human beings (living, as we do now, in a globalised world) live together, in conditions of co-operation over time, enjoying what Immanuel Kant famously called ‘perpetual peace’? And how much individual freedom can we expect to enjoy, and to what degree can we expect that individual freedom to be equal, whilst engaged in the enterprise described by the first question? These may be age-old questions, but I aim, in this project, to offer a new approach to answering them. In part two of this project, I aim to actually provide my own answer to the two fundamental questions with which I began and according to the structure I outline in Liberty. Which is to say, this is the answer I provide to you (and everyone else) to judge regarding how successfully it answers those age old political questions. In short, I argue that these are the changes in actual, material, human conditions - the necessary set of ‘alterable human practices’ to borrow a phrase of Isaiah Berlin’s - required to create an enduring, desirable and just ‘perpetual peace’ on earth. In other words, this is not, in Kant’s phrase, a ‘philosophical sketch’ on how perpetual peace might be attained, but, by focusing on the everyday, material, relationships and conditions which create and foster conflict and injustice across the globe today, I hope to provide a ‘material sketch’ as to how human beings might live in successfully together in conditions of peaceful cooperation and freedom over time.

Author : Michael J. Braddick
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199695898

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The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution by Michael J. Braddick Pdf

A Handbook exploring how the events of the English Revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - and demonstrating the long-term impacts of the crisis on the kingdoms themselves, as well as in a broader European context.

Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351348959

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Narratives of Secularization by Peter Harrison Pdf

It is increasingly clear that histories of secularization are not simply dispassionate descriptions of the decline of religious belief and practice in the West. Rather, such narratives often seek to celebrate secularization, promote some version of it, lament it, or otherwise oppose it in favour of a programme of desecularization or resacralization. The aim of this book is to identify some of the major genres of the history of secularization and to explore their historical contexts, normative commitments, and tendential purposes. The contributors to the volume offer different perspectives on these questions, not least because a number of them are themselves participants in the cultural-political programs described above. The primary purpose of this book, however, is the identification of such programs rather than their promotion. Overall, the collection seeks to bring analytical clarity to ongoing debates about secularization and help explain the co-existence of apparently conflicting stories about the origins of Western modernity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review journal.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499675

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Godly Kingship in Restoration England by Jacqueline Rose Pdf

The position of English monarchs as supreme governors of the Church of England profoundly affected early modern politics and religion. This innovative book explores how tensions in church-state relations created by Henry VIII's Reformation continued to influence relationships between the crown, Parliament and common law during the Restoration, a distinct phase in England's 'long Reformation'. Debates about the powers of kings and parliaments, the treatment of Dissenters and emerging concepts of toleration were viewed through a Reformation prism where legitimacy depended on godly status. This book discusses how the institutional, legal and ideological framework of supremacy perpetuated the language of godly kingship after 1660 and how supremacy was complicated by the ambivalent Tudor legacy. It was manipulated by not only Anglicans, but also tolerant kings and intolerant parliaments, Catholics, Dissenters and radicals like Thomas Hobbes. Invented to uphold the religious and political establishments, supremacy paradoxically ended up subverting them.

Author : Robert Pope
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472558305

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T&T Clark Companion to Nonconformity by Robert Pope Pdf

Protestant Nonconformity, the umbrella term for Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists and Unitarians, belongs specifically to the religious history of England and Wales. Initially the result of both unwillingness to submit to the State's interference in Christian life and a dissatisfaction with the progress of reform in the English Church, Nonconformity has been primarily motivated by theological concern, ecclesial polity, devotion and the nurture of godliness among the members of the church. Alongside such churchly interests, Nonconformity has also made a profound contribution to debates about the role of the State, to family life and education, culture in general, trade and industry, the development of philanthropy and charity, and the development of pacifism. In this volume, for the first time, Nonconformity and the breadth of its activity come under the expert scrutiny of a host of recognised scholars. The result is a detailed and fascinating account of a movement in church history that, while currently in decline, has made an indelible mark on social, political, economic and religious life of the two nations.

Author : Tim Cooper
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0754663612

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John Owen, Richard Baxter, and the Formation of Nonconformity by Tim Cooper Pdf

John Owen (1616-1683) and Richard Baxter (1615-1691) were both pivotal figures in forming the nonconformist landscape of Restoration England. Yet despite having much in common, they found themselves taking opposite sides in the theological debates that swept through Protestantism in the second half of the seventeenth century. By comparing and contrasting the parallel careers of these two men, this book not only explores the development of their beliefs, but also develops a broader understanding of the development of Restoration nonconformity.

Author : Danielle McCormack
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783271146

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The Stuart Restoration and the English in Ireland by Danielle McCormack Pdf

Crossing boundaries of political, intellectual and cultural history, this study highlights the complexity of political culture in Restoration Ireland.

Author : Abraham Stoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108418737

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Conscience in Early Modern English Literature by Abraham Stoll Pdf

This is an examination of how early modern poets attempt to capture the experience of being in the grip of conscience.

Author : Matthew Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198904120

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Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland C.1660- C.1730 by Matthew Ward Pdf

Thomas Hobbes is now regarded as one of England's greatest political philosophers. This book considers his reception in Ireland, where, it is suggested, the 'Leviathan' was released. In doing so, the book demonstrates the variety and sophistication of political thought in Ireland.

Author : Bernhard Dietz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472570031

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Neo-Tories by Bernhard Dietz Pdf

The danger to British democracy in the interwar period came from a different source to that which has thus far been assumed. It came from a network of radical conservatives who challenged the political system and sought to replace it with an authoritarian corporate state. In this book, Bernhard Dietz provides the first systematic analysis of this network and its members, which are called Neo-Tories. With strong links to the European right, yet a minority back home, this group of British conservatives are all the more fascinating today because it is on their ultimate failure that the success of British democracy rested.

Author : Thomas Max Safley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004206977

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A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World by Thomas Max Safley Pdf

This volume brings together recent scholarship on early modern multiconfessionalism that challenges accepted notions of reformation, confessionalization, and state-building and suggests a new vision of religions, state, and society in early modern Europe.

Author : Mark Goldie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783277360

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Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688 by Mark Goldie Pdf

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book explores the debates in Restoration England about "godly rule". The book assesses some of the crucial transitions in English history: how the late Reformation gave way to the early Enlightenment; how Royalism became Toryism and Puritanism became Whiggism; how the power of churchmen was challenged by virulent anticlericalism; how the verities of "divine right" theory revived and collapsed. Providing a distinctive account of English thought in the era between the two revolutions of the Stuart century, "Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688" discusses the ideological foundations of emerging party politics, and the deep intellectual roots of competing visions for the commonwealth, placing the power of religion, and the taming of religion, squarely alongside constitutional battles within secular politics.