This public lecture will be given by Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) at the Maison Française d’Oxford at 5.00pm on Wednesday 24 November. It is convened by Mogens Laerke (MFO).

This lecture will focus on the increasing bifurcation of republican political theory from the mid seventeenth century down to the American Revolution between democratic and aristocratic republicanism. The lecture argues that the main vehicle for developing democratic republicanism as a form of opposition to aristocratic republicanism was the tradition starting with the Brothers De La Court, Franciscus van den Enden and Spinoza. One of the main themes of the lecture will be to consider the question of why there was so little interaction between Dutch and English republicanism during the late Stuart period and the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution.

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