Preface; Directions: 1. Remapping early modern England: from revisionism to
the culture of politics; 2. A commonwealth of meanings: languages,
analogues, ideas and politics; Texts and Power: 3. The king's writ: royal
authors and royal authority in early modern England; 4. Private conscience
and public duty in the writings of James VI and I; 5. Private conscience
and public duty in the writings of Charles I; Visions and Politics: 6.
Stuart monarchy and political culture; 7. 'An image doting rabble': the
failure of republicanism culture in seventeenth-century England;
Rewritings: 8. Rewriting the history of Parliament in seventeenth-century
England; 9. Rewriting Sir Robert Cotton: politics and history in early
Stuart England; Re-Viewings: 10. Religion, rhetoric and revolution in
seventeenth-century England; 11. Celebrating a cultural turn: political
culture and cultural politics in early modern England; 12. Representations
and negotiations: images, texts and authority in early modern England.
