Regicide and Republicanism: Politics and Ethics in the English Revolution, 1646-1659

by Sarah Barber

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853312118
• ISBN13: 9781853312113
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"