Markku Peltonen

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.

Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era, this book offers a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism.