Divine Right to Diggers: Political Ideas and the British Civil Wars, 1600

Divine Right to Diggers: Political Ideas and the British Civil Wars, 1600 - 1660 - Book List

The number of books on this subject is vast and this reading list could very easily run to a great number of pages, it does not claim to be exhaustive. To get around this problem the reading list has been kept to the absolute minimum but supplementary booklists will be issued during the course relating to particular topics for you to take away with you. I hope that these supplementary lists will be useful in following up any particular topics which interest you after the course has ended.

It would be useful if you could look at the 'essential' books before the course begins.

Essential

Ashley, M. The English Civil War
Stroud: Sutton, 1990
A good, readable introduction to the narrative of the civil wars

Jendrysik. M.S. Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and his Contemporaries
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002
A good, modern introduction

Zagorin, P. A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965
A classic introduction to the topic

Background

Burgess, G. The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought 1603 - 1642
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992

Burgess, G. Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996

Hill, C. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution
London: Peregrine Books, 1984

Judson, M.A. The Crisis of the Constitution: An Essay in Constitutional and Political thought in England 1603 - 1645
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988

Manning, B. The English People and the English Revolution - 2nd ed.
London: Bookmark, 1991

Mendle, M.J. 'Politics and Political Thought, 1640 - 1642'. In The origins of the English Civil War. Russell, C. ed.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1973

Morrill, H. (ed) Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
London: Longman, 1990

Skinner, Q. Visions of Politics - 3 volumes
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Skinner, Q. Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Sommerville, J.P. Politics and Ideology in England 1603 - 1640
London: Longman, 1986

Sommerville, J.P. Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England 1603 - 1640 - 2nd ed
London: Longman, 1999

Sommerville, J.P. Thomas Hobbes: Political Ideas in Historical Context
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992

Primary Sources

The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution
Edited by S.R. Gardiner
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962

Cromwell, Oliver. Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. Edited by I. Roots
London: Everyman, 1989

Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writings in Stuart England
Edited by D. Wootton
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986

The English Levellers
Edited by A. Sharp
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Filmer, Robert. Patriarcha and Other Writings
Edited by J.P. Sommerville
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Harrington, James. The Commonwealth of Oceana and A System of Politics
Edited by J.G.A. Pocock
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006

King James VI & I. Political Writings
Edited by J.P. Sommerville
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Political Ideas of the English Civil War
Edited by A. Sharp
London: Longman, 1983

The Stuart Constitution
Edited by J.P. Kenyon
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966

Andrew Lacey
June 2011