Early Modern Studies @ Newcastle
Republicanism Reading Group
Focus
1. republican thinkers
2. historiography of republicanism
3. republicanism as a theory and a practice
Key Questions
- The narrowness of the ‘republican’ canon
- The definition of republicanism as constitutional rather than cultural
- The idea of the monarchical republic. What is this and is it a useful concept?
- Gender and republicanism
- Religion and republicanism including Protestant and Catholic resistance theories
- The use of natural and common law to support or challenge republican ideas
- Republican concepts of the citizen
- The overlap and conflict between the words/concepts ‘republic’ and ‘commonwealth’
- The relationship between American, ‘British’ and French republicanisms
- The translation of classical sources and their impact on vernacular republicanisms
- The extent to which modern notions of radicalism and conservatism (mis)shape the history of early modern republicanism.
Next meeting
Wednesday 15 October between 12.30 and 2.00 in Jenny Richards' office on the top floor of the Percy Building. At this meeting we’ll be discussing James Harrington's The Commonwealth of Oceana.
Contact
Ruth Connolly (ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk)
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