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

Divine Right to Diggers: Political Ideas and the British Civil Wars 1600 - 1660 - Lecture Programme

1.    The Law of Free Monarchies: James VI & I and the Divine Right of Kings

2.    The Myth of the Ancient Constitution

3.    Sir Robert Filmer and the Book of Genesis

4.    For King and Parliament: Philip Hunton and the Theory of Mixed Monarchy

5.    The Light Within - Radical Religion

6.    The Levellers and the Putney Debates of 1647

7.    True Levellers: Gerrard Winstanley and the Digger Movement

8.    The 'Well-Affected': Oliver Cromwell's Vision of a Godly Commonwealth

9.    A Radical in the Service of Reaction?: The Political Thought of Thomas Hobbes

10.    James Harrington and Classical Republicanism

11.    John Milton's Defence of a Free Commonwealth

12.    Charles I: King and Martyr?

June 2011