English Revolution

Perez Zagorin, University of Rochester, USA

'Zagorin's writing is a joy to read, containing concise yet detailed background descriptions of key events, historical actors presented with care and depth, and a consistency of style despite the span of years covered.' Parergon

• Contents: Introduction; Prolegomena to the comparative history of revolution in early modern Europe; The English revolution,1640-60; The social interpretation of the English Revolution; The court and the country: a note on political terminology in the earlier 17th century; Sir Edward Stanhope’s advice to Thomas Wentworth, Viscount of Wentworth, concerning the deputyship of Ireland: an unpublished letter of 1631; Did Strafford change sides?; The political beliefs of John Pym to 1629; The authorship of Mans Mortallitie; Thomas Hobbes’s departure from England in 1640: an unpublished letter; Hobbes on our mind; Hobbes’s early philosophical development; Clarendon and Hobbes; Cudworth and Hobbes on ’is’ and ’ought’; Sir Thomas Wyatt and the court of Henry VIII: the courtier’s ambivalence; The historical significance of lying and dissimulation; Index.