Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth

Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth
Title Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth PDF eBook
Author Paul Fideler
Publisher Routledge
Pages 306
Release 2003-09-02
Genre History
ISBN 1134919212

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Shining new light onto an historically pivotal time, this book re-examines the Tudor commonwealth from a socio-political perspective and looks at its links to its own past. Each essay in this collection addresses a different aspect of the intellectual and cultural climate of the time, going beyond the politics of state into the underlying thought and tradition that shaped Tudor policy. Placing security and economics at the centre of debate, the key issues are considered in the context of medieval precedence and the wider European picture.

From Kingdom to Commonwealth

From Kingdom to Commonwealth
Title From Kingdom to Commonwealth PDF eBook
Author Donald W. Hanson
Publisher
Pages 496
Release 1970
Genre History
ISBN

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Reformation of the Commonwealth

Reformation of the Commonwealth
Title Reformation of the Commonwealth PDF eBook
Author Brian L. Hanson
Publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Pages 251
Release 2019-09-16
Genre Religion
ISBN 3647554545

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This study considers sixteenth century evangelicals' vision of a ›godly‹ commonwealth within the broader context of political, religious, social, and intellectual changes in Tudor England. Using the clergyman and bestselling author, Thomas Becon (1512–1567), as a case study, Brian L. Hanson argues that evangelical views of the commonwealth were situation-dependent rather than uniform, fluctuating from individual to individual. His study examines the ways commonwealth rhetoric was used by evangelicals and how that rhetoric developed and changed. While this study draws from English Reformation historiography by acknowledging the chronology of reform, it engages with interdisciplinary texts on poverty, gender, and the economy in order to demonstrate the intersection of commonwealth rhetoric with Renaissance humanism. Furthermore, the experience of exile and the languages of prophecy and companionship directly influenced commonwealth rhetoric and dictated the priorities, vocabulary, and political expression of the evangelicals. As sixteenth-century England vacillated in its religious direction and priorities, the evangelicals were faced with a political conundrum and the tension between obedience and ›lawful‹ disobedience. There was ultimately a fundamental disagreement on the nature and criteria of obedience. Hanson's study makes a further contribution to the emerging conversation about English commonwealth politics by examining the important issues of obedience and disobedience within the evangelical community. A correct assessment of the issues surrounding the relationship between evangelicals and the commonwealth government will lead to a rediscovery of both the complexities of evangelical commonwealth rhetoric and the tension between the biblical command to submit to civil authorities and the injunction to ›obey God rather than man‹.

Tudor Protestant Political Thought 1547-1603

Tudor Protestant Political Thought 1547-1603
Title Tudor Protestant Political Thought 1547-1603 PDF eBook
Author Stephen A. Chavura
Publisher BRILL
Pages 266
Release 2011-05-23
Genre History
ISBN 9004209689

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The Reformation of the sixteenth-century is commonly seen as the transitional period between the medieval and the modern worlds. This study examines the political thought of England during its period of religious reform from the reign of Edward VI to the death of Elizabeth I. The political thought of Tudor ecclesiastics was heavily informed by the institutional and intellectual upheavals in England and on the continent, producing tensions between traditional ways of conceptualising politics and new religious and political realities. This book offers a study of natural law, providentialism, cosmic order, political authority, and government by consent in Protestant political thought during a transitional period in English history. It shows how the Reformation was central to the birth of modern political thought.

The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793

The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793
Title The Tree of Commonwealth, 1450-1793 PDF eBook
Author Whitney Richard David Jones
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 418
Release 2000
Genre Democracy
ISBN 9780838638378

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While full account is taken of authoritative secondary works, including recent scholarly controversies, the book's strength comes from the detailed illustration from original sources of its comparative analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government

Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government
Title Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government PDF eBook
Author G. R. Elton
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 420
Release 2002
Genre Great Britain
ISBN 9780521533188

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The papers collected in these volumes revolve around the political, constitutional and personal problems of the English government between the end of the fifteenth-century civil wars and the beginning of those of the seventeenth century. Previously published in a great variety of places, none of them appeared in book form before. They are arranged in four groups (Tudor Politics and Tudor Government in Volume I, Parliament and Political Thought in Volume II) but these groups interlock. Though written in the course of some two decades, all the pieces bear variously on the same body of major issues and often illuminate details only touched upon in Professor Elton's books. Several investigate the received preconceptions of historians and suggest new ways of approaching familiar subjects. They are reprinted unaltered, but some new footnotes have been added to correct errors and draw attention to later developments.

Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I

Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Title Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I PDF eBook
Author A. N. McLaren
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 288
Release 1999-12-09
Genre History
ISBN 1139426346

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In this major contribution to the Ideas in Context series Anne McLaren explores the consequences for English political culture when, with the accession of Elizabeth I, imperial 'kingship' came to be invested in the person of a female ruler. She looks at how Elizabeth managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition, and demonstrates how that opposition was enacted. Dr McLaren argues that during Elizabeth's reign men were able to accept the rule of a woman partly by inventing a new definition of 'citizen', one that made it an exclusively male identity, and she emphasizes the continuities between Elizabeth's reign and the outbreak of the English civil wars in the seventeenth century. A significant work of cultural history informed by political thought, Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I offers a wholesale reinterpretation of the political dynamics of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.