GLENN BURGESS is Professor of History at the University of Hull, UK. His previous publications include The Politics of the Ancient Constitution (1992) and Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (1996).

'Professor Burgess' claim that the Restoration of 1660 witnessed the end of Britain's wars of religion, preparing the way for the merging of the confessional state with the Enlightenment world, is one we should take seriously.' - Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement '[T]he individual discussions of political texts are balanced, sensible and satisfying... The book does a solid job of making its readers acquainted with the numerous particular figures it discusses.' - John F. McDiarmid, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• PrefaceIntroductionPART ONE: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND CONFESSIONAL POLITIES, 1500-1640Henrician Political ThoughtReformation, Obedience and ResistanceLawful Politics and Protestant Conformity: Political Thought in the Age of Elizabeth IPeaceful Politics? Jacobean and Caroline EnglandPART TWO: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION, 1640-1660Resistance and Royalism in the British MonarchiesReligion and Radicalism in the English RevolutionThomas HobbesRepublicanism and the English Commonwealth: Political Thought During the InterregnumConclusionNotesFurther ReadingIndex.