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George Lawson's 'Politica' and the English Revolution
The first full account, analysis and subsequent history of George Lawson's Politica, 1660-89.
The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts
Conal Condren examines the criteria for judging both works of political theory and texts associated with related academic genres. He discusses the rhetoric surrounding terms like …
Argument and Authority in Early Modern England
Conal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England through an exploration of pervasive arguments about office. In …
Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought
This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early modern political thought. Until recently, literary scholars have not generally …
Lawson: Politica sacra et civilis
Lawson’s Politica is a systematic treatise on politics in church and state, and is arguably the most significant work of political theory to have been printed during the …
Between Laughter and Satire
This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been …
The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe
In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series …
The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting point in modern theories of …
Hobbes, the Scriblerians and the History of Philosophy
Satire was core to the work of Thomas Hobbes although his critics also used it as a weapon to ridicule him. Condren uses Hobbes as an example to demonstrate that an examination of …