Notes on Contributors
Camilla Boisen
is Lecturer of Writing at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her main area of research is the intellectual history of empire and political theory in relation to the development of ideas of rights and trusteeship and their influence on contemporary problems such as postcolonial restitution. She is interested in how ideas have been formed and framed historically and how those concepts shape what our present structures of power and justification look like. She has published articles in, among others, History of European Ideas, Journal of International Political Theory and Grotiana and is co-editor of Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought: perspectives on Finding a Fair Share (Routledge, 2016).
Alan Cromartie
is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. He is the author of Sir Matthew Hale: Law, Religion, and Natural Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and of The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and the editor of Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and Student, of the Common Laws of England (Oxford University Press, 2005). His present large-scale project is a monograph on Hobbes.
Cesare Cuttica
is Lecturer in British History at the Université Paris 8-Vincennes. He is the author of Sir Robert Filmer (1588â1653) and the Patriotic Monarch: Patriarchalism in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought (Manchester University Press, 2012; Paperback 2015). He also edited with Glenn Burgess, Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012), and with Gaby Mahlberg, Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts (London: Bloomsbury, 2016). He has recently completed a monograph dealing with anti-democratic ideas in early modern England ca. 1570â1642 as well as a few pieces on the thought and methodology of various contemporary British intellectual historians (e.g. John W. Burrow and Stefan Collini).
Hannah Dawson
is Senior Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Kingâs College London. She is the author of two books, Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Hobbes: Great Thinkers on Modern Life (Pegasus, 2015), as well as numerous articles. She is currently editing Lockeâs Disputations on the Law of Nature for the Clarendon Edition, and The Feminists for Penguin Classics.
Martin Dzelzainis
is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Thought at the University of Leicester. He is currently editing Miltonâs Histories for The Complete Works of John Milton (Oxford University Press); Andrew Marvellâs verse and prose for the Oxford 21st-Century Authors series; and (with Edward Holberton) The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell. He is also General Editor, with Paul Seaward, of the Oxford edition of The Works of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon.
Rachel Foxley
is the author of The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution (Manchester University Press, 2013). Her current work focuses on negotiations with the idea of democracy in English republican texts. She is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Reading.
Matthew Growhoski
is a postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Growhoskiâs major interests are political satire and political thinking during the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. He is currently writing an intellectual biography of John Barclay.
Rachel Hammersley
is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at Newcastle University, UK. Her areas of expertise include the exchange of ideas between Britain and France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the history of concepts such as republicanism, revolution and democracy. She is the author of French Revolutionaries and English Republicans: The Cordeliers Club, 1790â1794 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005) and of The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France: Between the Ancients and the Moderns (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010). She has also recently edited a collection of essays entitled Revolutionary Moments: Reading Revolutionary Texts (London: Bloomsbury, 2015). Rachel is in the last stages of writing an intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century English political thinker James Harrington for Oxford University Press. For more detail visit
Peter Lake
is University Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of the History of Christianity and Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt University. He works on post-Reformation English History (mostly in the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods). He has authored eight books, including How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage. Power and Succession in the History Plays (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016) and Bad Queen Bess?: Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth i (Oxford University Press, 2016). He has edited various collections of essays. He is currently working on a book on Catholic critiques of the Elizabethan regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel and a tyranny, and on another about Samuel Clarkeâs collections of godly lives.
Gaby Mahlberg
is a journalist and independent scholar based in Berlin. She is the author of Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century: Dreaming of Another Game (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009). She also co-edited with Dirk Wiemann European Contexts for English Republicanism (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013) and Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), and with Cesare Cuttica Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts (London: Bloomsbury, 2016). She is currently completing her second monograph on the English republican exiles in Europe.
Markku Peltonen
is Academy Professor and Professor of History at the University of Helsinki. His publications include Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570â1640 (1995), The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour (2003) and Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-revolutionary England (2013) all published by Cambridge University Press. He has also edited The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (1996) for Cambridge University Press. He is completing a book on the political thought of the English Republic.
Edward Vallance
is Professor of Early Modern British Political Culture at the University of Roehampton, London. He is the author of A Radical History of Britain (Little, Brown, 2009), The Glorious Revolution (Pegasus, 2006) and Revolutionary England and the National Covenant (Boydell, 2005). With Harald Braun, he has edited two volumes on conscience and casuistry in early modern Europe: Contexts of Conscience (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and The Renaissance Conscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Most recently he has edited the collection, Remembering Early Modern Revolutions: England, North America, France and Haiti (Routledge, 2018). His articles have featured in Albion, English Historical Review, Historical Journal, Historical Research, History Workshop Journal, The Huntington Library Quarterly, Journal of British Studies, Renaissance Studies, and The Seventeenth Century. His most recent monograph is Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658â1727, published by Manchester University Press in 2019.
John West
is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. His publications include Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, Religion, and Politics in Restoration England (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Literature of the Stuart Successions: An Anthology (Manchester University Press, 2017). His research focuses on early modern political and religious literature and he is currently working on a project about succession writing from regicide to restoration.