Regicide and Republicanism by Sarah Barber

Regicide and Republicanism 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 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.

It will enter the crowded historiography on the English Revolution with a bang-- William R. Everdell, St Ann's School, New York David Norbrook, Magdalen College, Oxford -- A highly original, interesting and thought-provoking book ! extensively researched, vigorously and entertainingly written, and full of ideas ! this is a stimulating and lively book that deserves to be widely read. Historical Journal It will enter the crowded historiography on the English Revolution with a bang. David Norbrook, Magdalen College, Oxford Historical Journal

Sarah Barber, author of The Kissing Party, has published poems in Ninth Letter, Pleiades, New Ohio Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, and Poetry, among other publications. She teaches at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N

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ISBN 13	9781853312113
ISBN 10	1853312118
Title	Regicide and Republicanism
Author	Sarah Barber
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Year published	1998-07-01
Number of pages	320
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