Markku Peltonen is Professor of History at the University of Helsinki. He has published widely on early modern political thought and intellectual history, including Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570–1640 (1995), The Duel in Early Modern England (2003) and Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England (2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. He has also edited The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (1996 ) and has been the recipient of numerous international research fellowships and awards.

• Introduction; 1. Changing the form of government; 2. Anti-monarchism; 3. The free state; 4. Aristocracy; 5. Democracy; Epilogue.

Markku Peltonen is Professor of History at the University of Helsinki. He has published widely on early modern political thought and intellectual history, including Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570–1640 (1995), The Duel in Early Modern England (2003) and Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England (2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. He has also edited The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (1996 ) and has been the recipient of numerous international research fellowships and awards.

• Introduction; 1. Changing the form of government; 2. Anti-monarchism; 3. The free state; 4. Aristocracy; 5. Democracy; Epilogue.

Markku Peltonen is Professor of History at the University of Helsinki. He has published widely on early modern political thought and intellectual history, including Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570–1640 (1995), The Duel in Early Modern England (2003) and Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England (2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. He has also edited The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (1996 ) and has been the recipient of numerous international research fellowships and awards.

• Introduction; 1. Changing the form of government; 2. Anti-monarchism; 3. The free state; 4. Aristocracy; 5. Democracy; Epilogue.