Authority and Property: The Question of Liberal Origins

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. The Theory of Practice: Hexter’s Historiography 1
5. Toward a New Socio-Political Order
6. Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace 25
7. Toward a More Perfect Union: England, Scotland, and the Constitution 57
8. Corruption at the Court of James I: The Undermining of Legitimacy 75
9. Aristocrats and Lawyers in French Provincial Government, 1559-1648: From Governors to Commissars 95
10. The Journal of the House of Lords for the Long Parliament 129
11. Community and Class: Theories of Local Politics in the English Revolution 147
12. The Residential Development of the West End of London in the Seventeenth Century 167
13. The Problem of Ideological Adaptation
14. Anxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture 215
15. Madness and Civilization in Early Modem Europe: A Reappraisal of Michel Foucault 247
16. The Elizabethan Bourgeois Hero-Tale: Aspects of an Adolescent Social Consciousness 267
17. Constitutional Uncertainty and the Declaration of Rights 291
18. The Origins of the Calvinist Theory of Revolution 309
19. Authority and Property: The Question of Liberal Origins 331
20. The Published Works of J. H. Hexter: A Bibliography 355
21. Contributors 361