politics of the public sphere in early modern England

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University|Steven Pincus is Bradford Durfee Professor of History at Yale University

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Rethinking the public sphere in early modern England. Peter Lake and Steven Pincus1. The pilgrimage of grace and the public sphere. Ethan Shagan2. The politics of popularity and the public sphere: the ‘monarchical republic’ of Elizabeth I defends itself. Peter Lake3. The smiling crocodile: the Earl of Essex and late-Elizabethan ‘popularity’. Paul Hammer4. The ‘public man’ in late Tudor and early Stuart England. Richard Cust5. The embarrassment of libels: perceptions and representations of verse libeling in early Stuart England. Alastair Bellany6. Marketing a massacre: Amboyna, the East India Company and the public sphere in early modern England. Anthony Milton7. Men, the ‘public’ and the ‘private' in the English revolution. Ann Hughes8. The state and civil society in early modern England: capitalism, causation and Habermas’ bourgeois public sphere. Steven Pincus9. Matthew Smith v the ‘great men’: plot-talk, the public spere and the problem of credibility in the 1690s. Rachel Weil10. How rational was the later Stuart public sphere? Mark KnightsIndex