Court, Country, and Culture
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β¦ Table of Contents
Court, Country and Culture......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 11
The English Revolution in the History of Political Thought*......Page 18
Iβ The History of Political Thought......Page 21
IIβ The English Revolution......Page 27
I......Page 38
II......Page 40
III......Page 45
IV......Page 48
V......Page 52
VI......Page 56
A View from the Vistula on the English Revolution......Page 58
The Court and the Country Revisited......Page 71
The "Imperial Crown" and the Liberty of the Subject: The English Constitution from Magna Carta to th.........Page 81
I......Page 104
II......Page 106
III......Page 116
Benefits, Brokers and Beneficiaries: The Culture of Exchange in Seventeenth Century England......Page 124
Declining Status in an Aspiring Age: The Problem of the Gentle Apprentice in Seventeenth-Century Lon.........Page 143
The Laudians and the Argument from Authority......Page 162
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II......Page 164
III......Page 166
IV......Page 172
V......Page 181
VI......Page 185
"Vesells Fitt for the Masters Us[e]": A Transatlantic Community of Religious Women, The Quakers 1675.........Page 189
Metaphysical Implications in Hobbes's Theory of Passions......Page 210
Aspiring Minds: A Machiavellian Motif from Marlowe to Milton......Page 222
Performing the Enlightenment Self: Henry Fielding and the History of Identity......Page 233
I......Page 234
II......Page 237
III......Page 252
Selected Publications of Perez Zagorin......Page 255
Notes on Contributors......Page 257
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