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Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism
Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research.
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Authors Losing Control: The European Transformations of Henry Neville's \The Isle of Pines\ (1668)
Henry Neville’s utopian travel narrative The Isle of Pines, first published in London in June 1668, became an instant bestseller on the European market. Within a few months more than twenty foreign editions were printed in five western European languages, and numerous responses, commentaries, and adaptations followed over the years, leaving the reader wondering whether the story was fact, fiction, or something else entirely. This essay traces the complex transformations of this successful pamphlet as it traveled across the Continent in an attempt to shed new light on its contemporary impact and significance outside of England. In an attempt to shed new light on its contemporary impact and significance outside of England.
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\LES JUGES JUGEZ, SE JUSTIFIANTS\ (1663) AND EDMUND LUDLOW'S PROTESTANT NETWORK IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SWITZERLAND
This article aims to locate English republican thought and writing in a wider European context and to understand the personal connections that aided the distribution and reception of English republican ideas abroad. It does so through the case-study of a little-known pamphlet published by the English regicide Edmund Ludlow during his exile in Switzerland after the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660. Les juges jugez, se justifiants (1663) was a French translation of the dying speeches and other miscellaneous texts of some of the English regicides, produced in Geneva and subsequently printed in Yverdon with the help of Ludlow's local Protestant network. Rather than propagating a secular republican ideology, Ludlow offered his work to a European Protestant audience in the language of Geneva, promoting a primarily religious cause in an attempt to make martyrs out of political activists. It is therefore to Ludlow's Protestant networks that we need to turn to find out more about the transmission of English republican ideas in francophone Europe and beyond.
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LES JUGES JUGEZ, SE JUSTIFIANTS (1663) AND EDMUND LUDLOW‘S PROTESTANT NETWORK IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SWITZERLAND
This article aims to locate English republican thought and writing in a wider European context and to understand the personal connections that aided the distribution and reception of English republican ideas abroad. It does so through the case-study of a little-known pamphlet published by the English regicide Edmund Ludlow during his exile in Switzerland after the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660. Les juges jugez, se justifiants (1663) was a French translation of the dying speeches and other miscellaneous texts of some of the English regicides, produced in Geneva and subsequently printed in Yverdon with the help of Ludlow's local Protestant network. Rather than propagating a secular republican ideology, Ludlow offered his work to a European Protestant audience in the language of Geneva, promoting a primarily religious cause in an attempt to make martyrs out of political activists. It is therefore to Ludlow's Protestant networks that we need to turn to find out more about the transmission of English republican ideas in francophone Europe and beyond.
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God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell
Chapter 6 on 'Cromwell and the Protectorate' continues on this theme, focusing on the 'persistent ambiguity' (p. 233) that overshadowed the rule of a man who was a king and not a king, who adhered to republican forms, while slowly adopting a royal style, and who was hated not just by royalists, but most intensely 'among his former allies' (p. 231). Overall, Worden's emphasis on the 'force of religious conviction in political decision-making' (p. 6) chimes with a number of recent works that take religion seriously as a political force and is part of his continuing attempt to dispel the notion that 'religion was the seventeenth century's way of talking about something else' (p. 2). God's Instruments follows a fashion to make easily accessible the defining works of well-established scholars and build on the success of their previous output, as was the case with Quentin Skinner's Visions of Politics (3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002); and Oxford University Press has certainly produced a handsome volume bound to sell many copies.
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