Anti-Democracy in England 1570-1642

ISBN-13: 9780192866097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Cesare Cuttica

Recenzje

As an intellectual historian, his thematic choice is guided by a historiographical reason: if he wishes to study anti democracy rather than democracy, it is because the period which goes from the reign of Elizabeth 1st to that of Charles 1er made the first a main theme and a "scarecrow", without anyone taking the side of the second. Also the major contribution of this book is to show that, in premodern England, until the execution of Charles 1st in 1649, nobody claimed to be democratic, in the political and religious establishment, that goes without saying, but not more so in the popular or sectarian groups, which is more surprising.

O autorze

Cesare Cuttica's main research interests lie in the history of ideas in early modern Britain and Europe. The study of patriarchalism, absolute power, resistance theory, republicanism, patriotic ideals, and democracy has been the keynote of his work so far. In addition, he has written about the practice of history-writing, notably about the methodology of intellectual history.