In this volume, a distinguished international group of scholars examines the idea of the 'monarchical republic' from the 1530s to the 1640s, and tests the conce
With its challenging, paradoxical thesis that Elizabethan England was a 'republic which happened also to be a monarchy', Patrick Collinson's 1987 essay 'The Mon
Includes contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the