Todd Butler here proposes a new epistemology of early modern politics, one that sees-as did writers of the period-human thought as a precursor to political acti

Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth-century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful t

New essays focussing on the problems of politics, women, and print culture in seventeenth-century Britain. This collection of essays, presented as a tribute to

This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case study in the r

The outstanding essays in this volume explore the interdependency of literature and history in seventeenth-century England. The relation of text to society is e