The Puritan Revolution of mid-seventeenth-century England produced an explosion of new and important political thinking. But while due attention has been given to the most famous thinkers, there are other important figures who have been relatively neglected, of whom Anthony Ascham is one. This book provides the first full-scale study of Ascham's political thought. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the aftermath of the abolition of monarchy and the establishment of the English Republic, when he served as official pamphleteer of the Parliament and the republican...
The Puritan Revolution of mid-seventeenth-century England produced an explosion of new and important political thinking. But while due attention has b...