Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640 - Softcover

Sommerville, J.P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582320062 ISBN 13: 9780582320062

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining the main political theories in c.17th England - the Divine Right of Kings, government by consent, and the ancient constitution - he considers their impact on actual events. He draws on major political thinkers like Hobbes and Locke, but also on lesser but more representative figures, to explore what was new in these ideas and what was merely the common currency of the age. This major new edition incorporates all the latest thinking on the subject.

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'This is a powerful and persuasive work of considerable originality and importance.'

Times Higher Education Supplement

Synopsis:

A new edition of this well-known book which reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the Engish Civil War, rather than focusing narrowly on the social and economic roots of the conflict. It provides a clear account of the main political theories in c17th England - The Divine Right of Kings; Government by Consent; and The Ancient Constitution - and goes on to consider the significance of these ideas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0582320062
• ISBN 13: 9780582320062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 318