“A commonwealth is not fit for us, because we are not fit for a commonwealth”: Trimming and Republicanism in the Restoration Crisis

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“A commonwealth is not fit for us, because we are not fit for a commonwealth”: Trimming and Republicanism in the Restoration Crisis
This seminar is in hybrid format
Suggested preparatory reading:

Jonathan Scott, Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis, 1677-1683 (1991), ch. 7; Andrew Mansfield, ‘The First Earl of Shaftesbury’s Resolute Conscience and Aristocratic Constitutionalism’, Historical Journal (in press, 2021)

Gaby Mahlberg, Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the seventeenth century: dreaming of another game (2009), ch. 1
Date: 24 February 2022, 17:00
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Ship Street Centre, and online via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Christopher Barbour-Mercer (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark