This book provides a fresh reassessment of English politics and political culture during the Commonwealth--the brief period of parliamentary republican rule (with no monarch, royal court, or House of Lords) between the execution of Charles I in 1649, and Cromwell's seizure of power in 1653. It focuses particularly on the problem of how to legitimate governmental authority in the absence of a monarchy and in the absence of all the symbolic and ceremonial forms through which authority had traditionally been expressed and exercised. Finally, the author argues that the Commonwealth regime was not...
This book provides a fresh reassessment of English politics and political culture during the Commonwealth--the brief period of parliamentary republica...
