The position of English monarchs as supreme governors of the Church of England profoundly affected early modern politics and religion. This innovative book expl

"The position of English monarchs as supreme governors of the Church of England profoundly affected early modern politics and religion. This innovative book exp

France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the

Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was

This book is a landmark study of Shakespeare’s politics as revealed in his later History Plays. It offers the first ever survey of anti-monarchism in Western