Focusing on the interaction of religion and politics, this is a comprehensive chronological survey of the political thought of post-Reformation Britain which examines the work of a wide range of thinkers.

Glenn Burgess is Professor of History at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought 1603-1642 (1992); Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (1996); British Political Thought 1500-1660 (2009); and many articles, essays and edited collections.

Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND CONFESSIONAL POLITIES, 1500-1640
Henrician Political Thought
Reformation, Obedience and Resistance
Lawful Politics and Protestant Conformity: Political Thought in the Age of Elizabeth I
Peaceful Politics? Jacobean and Caroline England
PART TWO: POLITICAL THOUGHT AND RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION, 1640-1660
Resistance and Royalism in the British Monarchies
Religion and Radicalism in the English Revolution
Thomas Hobbes
Republicanism and the English Commonwealth: Political Thought During the Interregnum
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Index.