The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

320 Pages·2007·2.1 MB·English

by  John F. McDiarmid

The Monarchical Republic of
Early Modern England
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A booke of Christian prayers, collected out of the auncie[n]t authors, and
best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read … in these daungerous and
troublesome dayes … , compiled by Richard Day, STC 6429 (London,
1578), fol. 48r. By Permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The Monarchical Republic of
Early Modern England
Essays in Response to Patrick Collinson
Edited by
JOHN F. M DIARMID
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New College of Florida
© John F. McDiarmid 2007
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The monarchical republic of early modern England : essays in response to Patrick
Collinson. – (St Andrews studies in Reformation history) 1. Collinson, Patrick
– Influence 2. Great Britain – Politics and government – 1558–1603 3. Great
Britain – Politics and government – 1603-1625 4. Great Britain – History –
Elizabeth I, 1558–1603 – Historiography
I. McDiarmid, John F.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The monarchical republic of early Modern England : essays in response to
Patrick Collinson / edited by John F. McDiarmid.
p. cm. – (St. Andrews studies in Reformation history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-5434-6 (alk. paper)
1. Monarchy–Great Britain–History. 2. Republicanism–Great Britain–History.
3. Great Britain–Politics and government–1485–1603. I. McDiarmid, John F.,
1947– II. Collinson, Patrick.
JN338.M66 2007
320.94209’031–dc22
2007007387
ISBN 978 0 7546 5434 6
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd. Bodmin, Cornwall.
Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Editor’s Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
John F. McDiarmid
1 The Two Republics: Conflicting Views of Participatory Local
Government in Early Tudor England 19
Ethan H. Shagan
2 Sir William Cecil, Sir Thomas Smith, and the Monarchical
Republic of Tudor England 37
Dale Hoak
3 Common Consent, Latinitas, and the ‘Monarchical Republic’
in mid-Tudor Humanism 55
John F. McDiarmid
4 The Political Creed of William Cecil 75
Stephen Alford
5 ‘Let none such office take, save he that can for right his
prince forsake’: A Mirror for Magistrates, Resistance Theory
and the Elizabethan Monarchical Republic 91
Scott Lucas
6 Rhetoric and Citizenship in the Monarchical Republic of
Queen Elizabeth I 109
Markku Peltonen
7 ‘The Monarchical Republic of Queen Elizabeth I’ (and the
Fall of Archbishop Grindal) Revisited 129
Peter Lake
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8 The Political Significance of the First Tetralogy 149
Andrew Hadfield
9 Challenging the Monarchical Republic: James I’s
Articulation of Kingship 165
Anne McLaren
10 Reading for Magistracy: The Mental World of
Sir John Newdigate 181
Richard Cust
11 English and Roman Liberty in the Monarchical Republic of
Early Stuart England 201
Johann P. Sommerville
12 American Corruption 217
Andrew Fitzmaurice
13 The Monarchical Republic Enthroned 233
Quentin Skinner
Afterword 245
Patrick Collinson
Bibliography 261
Index 289
Notes on Contributors
Stephen Alford is University Lecturer in History and Fellow of King’s
College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Early Elizabethan Polity:
William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558–1569 (Cambridge,
1998) and Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI (Cambridge,
2002).
Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus,
and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Among his many works are
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (London, 1967), The Religion of
Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559–1625 (Oxford, 1982),
Elizabethan Essays (London, 1994), The Reformation (London, 2003) and
From Cranmer to Sancroft: English Religion in the Age of Reformation
(London, 2005). Along with other honours and distinctions, he has been
the recipient of three festschrifts.
Richard Cust is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of
Birmingham. His publications include The Forced Loan and English
Politics 1626–1628 (Oxford, 1987), Politics, Religion and Popularity in
Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell, edited with
Thomas Cogswell and Peter Lake (Cambridge, 2002), and Charles I: A
Political Life (London, 2005).
Andrew Fitzmaurice is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of
Sydney. He is the author of Humanism and America: An Intellectual
History of English Colonisation, 1500–1625 (Cambridge, 2003), as well as
other studies of early modern rhetoric and the ideology of colonization.
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for
Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author or
editor of numerous books on early modern English and Irish literature,
including Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to
Renaissance (Cambridge, 1994), Spenser’s Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt
and Salvage Soyl (Oxford, 1997) and Shakespeare and Republicanism
(Cambridge, 2005).
Dale Hoak is Chancellor Professor of History at The College of William
and Mary and Associate Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Among his
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principal publications are The King’s Council in the Reign of Edward
VI (Cambridge, 1976), Tudor Political Culture (editor; Cambridge,
1995) and The World of William & Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on
the Revolution of 1688–89, edited with Mordechai Feingold (Stanford,
1996).
Peter Lake is Professor of History at Princeton University. His publications
on Elizabethan and early Stuart religion, politics and culture include
Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church (Cambridge, 1982), Culture
and Politics in Early Stuart England, edited with Kevin Sharpe (Stanford,
1993) and The Boxmaker’s Revenge: ‘Orthodoxy’, ‘Heterodoxy’, and the
Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London (Stanford, 2001).
Scott Lucas is Associate Professor of English at The Citadel. He has
published articles on Tudor and Stuart literature in journals and in books
including Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle
Ages and Renaissance, ed. Yvonne Bruce (Newark, DE, 2005). He has
recently completed a book-length study of A Mirror for Magistrates.
John F. McDiarmid is Associate Professor of Literature, Emeritus, at New
College of Florida. His articles on the mid-Tudor Cambridge Humanists
and other phases of Tudor and Stuart history and literature have appeared
in journals and reference collections. He is currently writing a biography
of Sir John Cheke.
Anne McLaren is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Political and Cultural
History at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of Political
Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth 1558–
1585 (Cambridge, 1999), and of articles in journals and essay collections
on the intersections of religion, politics, culture and gender in the early
modern period.
Markku Peltonen is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of
Helsinki. He is the author of Classical Humanism and Republicanism in
English Political Thought 1570–1640 (Cambridge, 1995) and The Duel
in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour (Cambridge,
2003), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (1996).
Ethan H. Shagan is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern
University. In addition to articles in journals and collections, he has written
the multiple-prize-winning Popular Politics and the English Reformation
(Cambridge, 2003) and edited Catholics and the ‘Protestant Nation’:
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix
Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England (Manchester,
2005).
Quentin Skinner is the Regius Professor of Modern History at the
University of Cambridge. His publications include The Foundations of
Modern Political Thought (2 vols, Cambridge, 1978), Reason and Rhetoric
in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge, 1996), Visions of Politics (3
vols, Cambridge, 2002) and Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage,
edited with Martin van Gelderen (2 vols, Cambridge, 2002).
Johann P. Sommerville is Professor of History at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison. He has written numerous articles, and his books
include Thomas Hobbes: Political Ideas in Historical Context (Cambridge,
1992), King James VI and I: Political Writings (editor; Cambridge, 1994)
and Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England 1603–1640
(2nd edn, London, 1999).