TY - BOOK AU - Dauber,Noah TI - State and Commonwealth: The Theory of the State in Early Modern England, 1549-1640 SN - 9780691170305 AV - JA84.G7 D29 2018 U1 - 320.1094209031 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Political science KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - State, The KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - Aristotelianism KW - De Republica Anglorum KW - Edward Seymour KW - Edward VI KW - England KW - English constitution KW - Jean Bodin KW - John Case KW - John Hales KW - Kett's Rebellion KW - Marian exiles KW - Martin Bucer KW - Reformation KW - Sir Francis Bacon KW - Sir Thomas Smith KW - Sphaera Civitatis KW - Thomas Hobbes KW - Thomas Smith KW - class politics KW - commonwealth KW - conscience KW - distributive justice KW - divine law KW - emulation KW - envy KW - forced loan KW - government KW - hierarchy KW - idleness KW - justification KW - law KW - magistracy KW - magistrates KW - monarchical republicanism KW - mutuality KW - national sovereignty KW - political development KW - political organization KW - political theory KW - political thought KW - postwar KW - private KW - public KW - sanctification KW - self-interest KW - ship money KW - social order KW - social organization KW - social theory KW - society of orders KW - society KW - sovereignty KW - state KW - tyrants KW - welfare state N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: State, Republic, and Commonwealth --; Chapter 1. The Reformers' Commonwealth --; Chapter 2. A Society of Orders --; Chapter 3. The Monarchical Republic --; Chapter 4. The Private and The Public --; Chapter 5. The Penal State and The Commonwealth of Conscience --; Conclusion: The Legacy of Commonwealth --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - In the history of political thought, the emergence of the modern state in early modern England has usually been treated as the development of an increasingly centralizing and expansive national sovereignty. Recent work in political and social history, however, has shown that the state-at court, in the provinces, and in the parishes-depended on the authority of local magnates and the participation of what has been referred to as "the middling sort." This poses challenges to scholars seeking to describe how the state was understood by contemporaries of the period in light of the great classical and religious textual traditions of political thought.State and Commonwealth presents a new theory of state and society by expanding on the usual treatment of "commonwealth" in pre-Civil War English history. Drawing on works of theology, moral philosophy, and political theory-including Martin Bucer's De Regno Christi, Thomas Smith's De Republica Anglorum, John Case's Sphaera Civitatis, Francis Bacon's essays, and Thomas Hobbes's early works-Noah Dauber argues that the commonwealth ideal was less traditional than often thought. He shows how it incorporated new ideas about self-interest and new models of social order and stratification, and how the associated ideal of distributive justice pertained as much to the honors and offices of the state as to material wealth.Broad-ranging in scope, State and Commonwealth provides a more complete picture of the relationship between political and social theory in early modern England UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400881017?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400881017 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400881017.jpg ER -