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Regicide and Republicanism : Politics and Ethics in the English Revolution, 1646-1659 / Sarah Barber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781853312113
  • 9781474400732
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.06/3
LOC classification:
  • DA406.B37 1998
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Regicide and Republicanism -- 1 Unparliamentary Language and the Dignity of the Crown -- 2 'A Mere Man': Charles Levelled -- 3 The Expense of Blood and Treasure -- 4 King Ahab -- 5 Queen Justice -- 6 Government New Modelled? -- 7 The Engagement of Loyalty -- 8 The Active and the Passive Life -- Epilogue: The Good Old Cause -- Select Bibliography of Printed Sources -- Index
Summary: 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 value of government. From 1646 onwards there developed two parallel strands of thought. Those who believed in government by laws developed a republican response to the crisis of the 1640s. Those who believed that people made laws attacked Charles I rather than the monarchy itself, supported the regicide and subsequently approved of the rule of Cromwell.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Regicide and Republicanism -- 1 Unparliamentary Language and the Dignity of the Crown -- 2 'A Mere Man': Charles Levelled -- 3 The Expense of Blood and Treasure -- 4 King Ahab -- 5 Queen Justice -- 6 Government New Modelled? -- 7 The Engagement of Loyalty -- 8 The Active and the Passive Life -- Epilogue: The Good Old Cause -- Select Bibliography of Printed Sources -- Index

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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 value of government. From 1646 onwards there developed two parallel strands of thought. Those who believed in government by laws developed a republican response to the crisis of the 1640s. Those who believed that people made laws attacked Charles I rather than the monarchy itself, supported the regicide and subsequently approved of the rule of Cromwell.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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