Markku Peltonen

Publications

Rhetoric, Politics, and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England
Markku Peltonen (Mellon Fellow, 2006-07)

Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides a completely new account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It examines the centrality of humanist rhetoric in the pre-revolutionary educational system and its vital contribution to the political culture of the period.

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The Political Thought of the English Free State
Markku Peltonen (Mellon Fellow, 2006-07)

Markku Peltonen explores the arguments in defense of the English free state and demonstrates the profound importance of the republican period.