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 mode

A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of the Civil Wa

Grounded in the language of early moderns themselves, this study proposes a new epistemology of early modern politics, which sees human thought as a precursor t

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