The rule of manhood : tyranny, gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-1660 /
Desiring to deepen his understanding of the present world by turning to the past, between 1644 and 1652 the Cambridge student William Bright filled a small book with notes and commonplaces gleaned from political, historical and religious writings. In 1648, he recorded political and military observat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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| Summary: | Desiring to deepen his understanding of the present world by turning to the past, between 1644 and 1652 the Cambridge student William Bright filled a small book with notes and commonplaces gleaned from political, historical and religious writings. In 1648, he recorded political and military observations drawn from an anonymous pamphlet by 'D. P. Gent', listing five 'chiefe Causes of the mutations of Monarchies,' 'Wants of Issue,' 'Ambition,' 'Lust,' 'Effeminacy' and 'Taxes.' The original pamphlet, entitled Severall politique and militarie observations (1648), had listed six causes of the mutations of monarchy, with the first being the 'crying sinnes of a Nation.' Bright, however, only copied into his notebook those causes which could be illustrated by historical and contemporary rather than by divine example. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-412) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108478830 1108478832 9781108746243 1108746241 |