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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      November 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511490736
      9780521843751
      9780521035736
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490736
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.78kg, 416 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.622kg, 416 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
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    History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
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    The republican writing of the English revolution has attracted a major scholarly literature. Yet there has been no single treatment of the subject as a whole, nor has it been adequately related to the larger upheaval from which it emerged, or to the larger body of radical thought of which it became the most influential component. Commonwealth Principles addresses these needs, and Jonathan Scott goes beyond existing accounts organized around a single key concept (whether constitutional, linguistic or moral) or author (usually James Harrington) to analyse this body of writing in full context. Linking various social, political and intellectual agendas Professor Scott explains why, when classical republicanism came to England, it did so in the moral service of an explicitly religious revolution. The resulting ideology hinged not upon political language, or constitutional form, but Christian humanist moral philosophy applied in the practical context of an attempted radical reformation of manners.

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    'Commonwealth Principles demonstrates the range, vigour and intrigue of intellectual English Republicanism.'

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    'Commonwealth Principles presents a coherent and confident overview.'

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    '… deserves to command the attention of a wide readership of early modern historians, and will asuredly stimulate further research into the ideological composition of seventeenth-century republicanism.'

    Source: Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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