Regicide and Republicanism

Politics and Ethics in the English Revolution, 1646-1659

Sarah Barber (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

1998
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-85331-211-3 (ISBN)

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This study of seventeenth-century monarchy suggests that the arguments which were used to attack the potentially absolutist monarchy of Charles I were not all that different from those used against the constitutional monarchy of today. The seventeenth-century arguments were based on the fiction that the person who fulfilled the office could be distinguished from the office itself. Personal morality and behaviour were vital factors in assessing the value of government. From 1646 onwards there developed two parallel strands of thought. Those who believed in government by laws developed a republican response to the crisis of the 1640s. Those who believed that people made laws attacked Charles I rather than the monarchy itself, supported the regicide and subsequently approved of the rule of Cromwell.

Sarah Barber is lecturer in History at Lancaster University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.1998
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	748 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
ISBN-10	1-85331-211-8 / 1853312118
ISBN-13	978-1-85331-211-3 / 9781853312113
Zustand	Neuware