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Author : Franklin Le Van Baumer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Early Tudor Theory of Kingship written by Franklin Le Van Baumer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Duncan Mackie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198217060
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558 written by John Duncan Mackie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic volume in the renowned Oxford History of England series examines the birth of a nation-state from the death throes of the Middle Ages in North-West Europe. John D. Mackie describes the establishment of a stable monarchy by the very competent Henry VII, examines the means employed by him, and considers how far his monarchy can be described as "new." He also discusses the machinery by which the royal power was exercised and traces the effect of the concentration of lay and eccleciastical authority in the person of Wolsey, whose soaring ambition helped make possible the Caesaro-Papalism of Henry VIII.
Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470692898
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Kingship written by Francis Oakley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred. Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; the emperors of Japan; the Maya rulers of Mesoamerica; the medieval popes and emperors; and the English and French monarchs of early modern Europe Explores the panoply of governing roles that kingship involved – administrative, military, judicial, economic, religious and symbolic – but focussing on its connection with the sacred. Draws on the insights of cultural anthropology and comparative religion, as well as the on the resources provided by historians.
Author : Glenn Burgess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137087978
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book British Political Thought, 1500-1660 written by Glenn Burgess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the interaction of religion and politics, this is a comprehensive chronological survey of the political thought of post-Reformation Britain which examines the work of a wide range of thinkers.
Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317050770
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays written by Kristin M.S. Bezio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in the public theaters during the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods (1580-1642). The study examines the way in which the early modern stage presented a critical dialogue concerning the nature of sovereignty through the lens of specifically English history, focusing in particular on the presentation and representation of monarchy. It presents the subgenre of the English history play as a specific reaction to the surrounding political context capable of engaging with and influencing popular and elite conceptions of monarchy and government. This project is the first of its kind to specifically situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context; its purpose is not only to provide an historical timeline of English political theory pertaining to monarchy, but to situate the drama as a significant influence on the production and dissemination thereof during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Some of the plays considered here, notably those by Shakespeare and Marlowe, have been extensively and thoroughly studied. But others-such as Edmund Ironside, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and King John and Matilda-have not previously been the focus of much critical attention.
Author : Corinne Comstock Weston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136972692
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book English Constitutional Theory and the House of Lords 1556-1832 (Routledge Revivals) written by Corinne Comstock Weston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965, this work studies the House of Lords and the various proposals for its reform, abolition or limitation of its powers which have been made in the light o f prevailing theories of the nature and characteristics of the English government. The work also contains a history of the theory of mixed government that arose in Tudor England and lasted until well after the Reform Act of 1832. This history both illuminates the position of the House of Lords and also provides perspective for the study of Democracy in the movement for parliamentary reform. One of the book's most original features is an extensive account of Charles I's Answer to the Nineteen Propostions, out of which came the startling new theory of the constitution, known as "mixed monarchy".
Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521433853
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Elizabethan Mythologies written by Robin Headlam Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For lovers of music and poetry the legendary figure of Orpheus probably suggests a romantic ideal. But for the Renaissance he is essentially a political figure. Mythographers interpreted the Orpheus story as an allegory of the birth of civilization because they recognized in the arts in which Orpheus excelled an instrument of social control so powerful that with it you could, as one writer put it, 'winne Cities and whole Countries'. Dealing with plays, poems, songs and the iconography of musical instruments, Robin Headlam Wells re-examines the myth, central to the Orpheus story, of the transforming power of music and poetry. Elizabethan Mythologies, first published in 1994, contains numerous illustrations from the period and will be of interest to scholars and students of Renaissance poetry, drama and music, and of the history of ideas.
Author : Jim McConalogue
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030252906
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The British Constitution Resettled written by Jim McConalogue and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a political constitutionalist view of the British constitution, this book critically explores the history of legal and political thought on parliamentary sovereignty in the UK. It argues that EU membership strongly unsettled the historical precedents underpinning UK parliamentary sovereignty. Successive governments adopted practices which, although preserving fundamental legal rules, were at odds with past precedents. The author uses three key EU case studies – the financial transactions tax, freedom of movement of persons, and the working time directive – to illustrate that since 1973 the UK incorporated EU institutions which unsettled those precedents. The book further shows that the parliament’s place since the referendum on Brexit in June 2016 and the scrutinising of the terms of the withdrawal agreement constitute an enhanced, new constitutional resettlement, and a realignment of parliament with the historical precedent of consent and its sovereignty.
Author : A. G. Dickens
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 082643634X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Late Monasticism and Reformation written by A. G. Dickens and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.G. Dickens is the most eminent English historian of the Reformation. His books and articles have illuminated both the history and the historiography of the Reformation in England and in Germany. Late Monasticism and the Reformation contains an edition of a poignant chronicle from the eve of the Reformation and a new collection of essays. The first part of the book is a reprint of his edition of The Chronicle of Butley Priory, only previously available in a small privately financed edition which has long been out of print. The last English monastic chronicle, it extends from the early years of the sixteenth century up to the Dissolution. Besides giving an intimate portrait of the community at Butley, it reveals many details concerning the local history and personalities of Suffolk during that period. The second part contains the most important essays published by A.G. Dickens since his Reformation Studies (1982). Their themes concern such areas of current interest as the strength and geographical distribution of English Protestantism before 1558; the place of anticlericalism in the English Reformation; and Luther as a humanist. Also included are some local studies including essays on the early Protestants of Northamptonshire and on the mock battle of 1554 fought by London schoolboys over religion.
Author : Brian Gogan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004476997
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Common Corps of Christendom: Ecclesiological Themes in the Writings of Sir Thomas More written by Brian Gogan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139445412
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Republicanism written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work, first published in 2005, reveals exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in political thought that were critical of the English crown and constitution. Shakespeare has often been seen as a conservative political thinker characterised by an over-riding fear of the 'mob'. Hadfield argues instead that Shakespeare's writing emerged out of an intellectual milieu fascinated by republican ideas. From the 1590s onwards, he explored republican themes in his poetry and plays: political assassination, elected government, alternative constitutions, and, perhaps most importantly of all, the problem of power without responsibility. Beginning with Shakespeare's apocalyptic representation of civil war in the Henry VI plays, Hadfield provides a series of powerful new readings of Shakespeare and his time. For anyone interested in Shakespeare and Renaissance culture, this book is required reading.
Author : Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521533195
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Studies in Tudor and Stuart politics and government : papers and reviews 1946-1972 written by Geoffrey Rudolph Elton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300194439
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Watershed of Modern Politics written by Francis Oakley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the era of the divine right of kings, the last period when kingship was a vital political institution. Identifies the assassinations of Henry III and Henry IV of France as the start of serious challenges to royal sovereignty, with the execution of Charles I of England representing the decisiive repudiation of sacral kingship.
Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521294355
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)
Download or read book The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-11-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought are intended as both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. -- Book Cover.
Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415184755
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Max Weber: Methods and theory written by Bryan S. Turner and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598561812
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Prophets written by Abraham Joshua Heschel and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prophets is widely recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship. Heschel attempts to understand the thoughts, feelings, and impressions of each of the prophets, presenting the reader with a sense of their very being. He effectively achieves a balance between the objective supernatural and the subjective human situation, and presents a unique discussion of Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk and their particular challenges and journeys. In the second part of the book, Heschel addresses such subjects as pathos, wrath, sympathy, ecstasy, psychosis, and prophetic and poetic inspiration, and in so doing offers a new contribution to the philosophy of religion. The Prophets is both scholarly and devotional, an indispensable part of an in-depth understanding of the Hebrew Bible.
Author : Richard F. Hardin
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874134261
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Civil Idolatry written by Richard F. Hardin and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the tensions in major Renaissance literary texts between the cult of monarchy and its subversions by Christianity. It corrects some modern scholars' assumptions of a prevailing divine-right theory of monarchy. A recurring theme from the English mystery plays to Milton proposes an inherent tendency of monarchy toward idolatry. The chapter on Erasmus makes a case for a strong tradition of political libertarianism that became a notable emphasis in English humanism. Then follow three essays on Spenser (especially Faerie Queene V and View), Shakespeare (especially the political plays of the late 1590s), and Milton (political writings, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained.). Ozment and others have shown that the Reformation fostered the desacralizing of secular life, an impulse that Schneidau has seen as central to the Hebrew-Christian tradition. Texts like the infamous Vindiciae contra Tyrannos support this interpretation as regards monarchy, rather than the received views of Kantorowicz, which are perhaps more relevant to the Continent. The king-figure in the English mystery plays is often the butt of satire, in contrast to his more dignified counterpart in some Continental drama. The king-figure enters the morality-play tradition as the "pride of life," a transition observed in the hybrid play Mary Magdalene. Erasmus's writings develop from a unified political and religious sensibility in accord with what Mesnard calls his evangelisme politique. For Erasmus, order is not an end in itself but serves the ends of peace, which in turn allow the human soul the optimum liberty to choose or reject the virtuous life. Thomas More's earlier agreement with, and later departure from, Erasmus's views on political authority are related to the Henrician political crisis. Spenser's anti-absolutism and Erasmus-like concept of peace, order, and liberty are disclosed in explications of the Isis Temple, Souldan, Gerioneo, and Grantorto episodes of Faerie Queene V. These and other writings show the poet's belief in the need for aristocracy to act in the service of truth. Shakespeare's "second tetralogy" moves toward Henry V's renouncing "idol ceremony," in contrast to Julius Caesar, which presents a model of disordered polity. Civil idolatry (Milton's phrase) in that play and in Milton's long poems leads to tyranny and ritualism, accompanied by fear and awe. This logic is woven into the texture of hell in Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained advances the position through its redefinition of conquest and fatherhood in response to the "conquest theory" and patriarchalism with which monarchists justified their cause. Ultimately Milton places the blame for civil idolatry on the majority, who prefer a condition of subservience and awe because, as Shakespeare's Henry V declared, it relieves them of the responsibilities of consciousness. The epilogue glances at new directions in a comparison of the coronations of Charles II and of William and Mary.
