... prudence prudentia Adrian IV Pope avarice Augustine God Gregory I Pope Gregory the Great Plutarch peasants Peter of Celle prince priesthood Seneca soul charity caritas oikeiôsis Ambrose Cicero Metalogicon Peripatetic mercy tyranny Body politic Tyranny Rulership Classical inheritance...

.... In the practical absence of the voices of deists and philosophes, the broad Catholic forces opposed the ‘tyranny’ of Rome in very forceful terms remarkably similar to those of dissenting Protestants. This chapter also demonstrates how politics and religion were intertwined, and that the broad politicisation...

... in various parts of the world. The Christian Right threatened American democracy. It promotes a socially conservative agenda. The argument of the Christian Right is that post-war ‘judicial tyranny’ has reinterpreted the First Amendment in such as way as to distort the intention of the founders by creating...

...This chapter discusses the activities of John Toland under George I. After the disastrous electoral defeats of 1710, Toland focused his energies on defending the succession and remaining vigilant against popish tyranny. In 1714 he published The reasons for naturalising the Jews...

... characters must reckon’, but which is hidden behind a veil ‘of Orwellian state secrecy’. ¹³ Byron’s second Venetian drama demonstrates at every turn the ‘tyranny’, ‘secrecy, coercion and black ops at the heart of [Venetian] rule’, the passivity induced by Venice’s power structure – for example...

...In classical descriptions, Persians and their rulers are seen as being given to both tyranny and femininity; early modern Europe thus inherited a view of Persia in which the performance of religious identity, political power and gender were inter-connected. Given the complex relationships between...

... dynasty tyranny Council of State Cromwell Oliver Lord Protector Independents and Independency Ireland New Model Army Presbyterians and Presbyterianism royalists and royalism Rump Parliament Vote of No Further Addresses Westminster City of Charles I King Fairfax Anne Mistress Parliament...

.... It investigates John’s account of tyranny in detail, looking at his grounds for validating tyrannicide. It situates John’s political theories in their context of production by looking his presentation of three contemporary political events - the reign of King Stephen, the activities of Frederick Barbarossa...

... subversive) political arguments about the nature of tyranny versus legitimate rule, illustrating the potency of emotional performance on the early modern page and stage. Hume David mind–body relationship Paster Gail Kern Paster Gail Kern Katherine Rowe and Mary Floyd Wilson Siebert Donald humoral theory...

...Other readings of the Massacre than that of divine punishment were possible. Protestant intellectuals (for the most part), the so-called monarchomachs, soon published treatises and tracts attacking the tyranny that absolute royal power had become and, with extensive reference...

... Reynolds John Scottish Parliament sedition Spain Buckingham George Villiers Duke of Charles I king Cust Richard Dorislaus Isaac Effiat Marquis d' Elizabeth I Queen Louis XIII republicanism tyranny billeting troops Buchanan George Forced Loan policy 1626–7 freedom of speech mixed government...

... This chapter starts with the ‘just war’ doctrine and its proponents from antiquity until the Renaissance, which was the framework, together with natural law, of the idea of waging war (a ‘just war’) in order to save people from tyranny and maltreatment. On the Renaissance roots of humanitarian...