Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38598-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought

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This cross-disciplinary collection of essays examines – for the first time and in detail – the variegated notions of democracy put forward in seventeenth-century England. It thus shows that democracy was widely explored and debated at the time; that anti-democratic currents and themes have a long history; that the seventeenth century is the first period in English history where we nonetheless find positive views of democracy; and that whether early-modern writers criticised or advocated it, these discussions were important for the subsequent development of the concept and practice ‘democracy’.

By offering a new historical account of such development, the book provides an innovative exploration of an important but overlooked topic whose relevance is all the more considerable in today’s political debates, civic conversation, academic arguments and media talk.


Contributors include Camilla Boisen, Alan Cromartie, Cesare Cuttica, Hannah Dawson, Martin Dzelzainis, Rachel Foxley, Matthew Growhoski, Rachel Hammersley, Peter Lake, Gaby Mahlberg, Markku Peltonen, Edward Vallance, and John West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cuttica, Cesare

Peltonen, Markku

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Conventions

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: ‘Gone Missing’: Democracy and Anti-democracy in Seventeenth-Century England

Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen

PART 1

Democracy and the People: Citizenship, Representation and the Commonwealth

1 Imagining Citizenship in the Levellers and Milton

Rachel Foxley

2 Democracy, Toleration, and the Interests of the People

Alan Cromartie

3 ‘All Government is in the people, from the people, and for the people’: Democracy in the English Revolution

Markku Peltonen

4 The Place of Democracy in Late Stuart England

Hannah Dawson

PART 2

Democracy and the World-Turned-Upside-Down: Religion, Emotions and Polemical Fire

5 ‘A most dangerous rudeness’: Anti-populism and the Literary Justification of Absolutism in the Fiction of John Barclay (1582–1621)

Matthew Growhoski

6 The Spectre Haunting Early Seventeenth-Century England (ca. 1603–1649): Democracy at Its Worst

Cesare Cuttica

7 Anti-puritanism as Political Discourse; the Laudian Critique of Puritan ‘Popularity’

Peter Lake

8 Presbyterians, Republicans, and Democracy in Church and State, c.1570–1660

Rachel Hammersley

9 Poetry, the Passions, and Anti-democracy in Later Stuart England

John West

PART 3

Democracy and the Other: Slaves, Natives and Women

10 Democracy and Anti-democracy: the Roger Williams and John Cotton Debate Revisited

Camilla Boisen

11 ‘The vulgar only scap’d who stood without’: Milton and the Politics of Exclusion

Martin Dzelzainis

12 A Democratic Culture? Women, Citizenship and Subscriptional Texts in Early Modern England

Edward Vallance

13 The Parliament of Women and the Restoration Crisis

Gaby Mahlberg

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cesare Cuttica is Lecturer in British History at the Université Paris 8-Vincennes, and author of Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the Patriotic Monarch: Patriarchalism in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought (Manchester, 2012). He also co-edited Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe (London, 2012) and Patriarchal Moments (London, 2016).

Markku Peltonen is Academy Professor and Professor of History at the University of Helsinki. His publications include Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570–1640 (Cambridge, 1995) and The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour (Cambridge, 2003) and Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-revolutionary England (Cambridge, 2013).