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929 CHARLES Ier --- Charles --- Charles Ier, roi d'Angleterre

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Much ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century, yet royalism has been largely neglected. This 2007 volume of essays by leading scholars in the field seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by focusing on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists described were not reactionary, absolutist extremists but pragmatic, moderate men who were not so different in temperament or background from the vast majority of those who decided to side with, or were forced by circumstances to side with, Parliament and its army. The essays force us to think beyond the simplistic dichotomy between royalist 'absolutists' and 'constitutionalists' and suggest instead that allegiances were much more fluid and contingent than has hitherto been recognized. This is a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the Civil Wars and of early modern England more generally.

Royalists --- History --- Charles --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Charles Ier, roi d'Angleterre --- Arts and Humanities

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Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Great Britain --- Charles --- History --- Kings and rulers --- Charles Ier, roi d'Angleterre

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English republicanism has long been a major theme in the history of political thought, but the years of the English free state are often overlooked. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era, The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649-1653 offers a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism. Markku Peltonen explores the arguments in defence of the English free state and demonstrates the profound importance of the republican period. The pamphleteers who defended the free state maintained that the people, or their representatives, could alter the form of government whenever they deemed it advantageous, put forward powerful anti-monarchical arguments and widely shared the republican conviction that individual freedom could only materialise in a free state. Peltonen also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy and shows how, for the first time in English history, democracy was not only robustly defended but understood as representative.

Charles --- Cromwell, Oliver, --- Great Britain --- History --- Cromwell, Oliver --- Cromwel, Oliver --- Charles Ier, roi d'Angleterre --- Political science --- Republicanism --- Political culture --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory --- Culture --- Assassination.

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Charles I, King of England --- Great Britain --- History --- -Kings and rulers --- -Biography. --- Charles --- Charles Ier, roi d'Angleterre --- Kings and rulers --- Biography. --- Biography --- Charles I, 1625-1649 --- Charles I