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The Politics of John Selden, 1584-1654

Liber, FelixUniversity of Cambridge2024

In recent decades, John Selden’s reputation has often been coloured by Johann P. Sommerville’s 1984 judgement that his skill as an antiquary was such, ‘[t]hat his work as a political theorist was indifferent and unoriginal should not detract in the least from his reputation.’ Studies have therefore …

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John Selden and the laws of England : jurisprudence and constitutional theory, 1584-1654

Roslak, Oleg M.University of Cambridge1999

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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755

Pincus, Alaina R.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2017

… Early Enlightenment political theorists like John Selden and Thomas Hobbes appropriated Jewish political theory, in particular the Jewish understanding of the relationship between the Jewish polity and the State, for their own theories of government. Although they did so through the lens of …

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