Böcker av Markku (University of Helsinki) Peltonen

Markku Peltonen examines the centrality of humanist rhetoric in the pre-revolutionary educational system and its vital contribution to the political culture of the period. He argues that humanism was crucial to the development of the participatory character of English politics and an important background for the politics of the period.

Arguments about the duel in early modern England were widespread. To understand duelling is to understand some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and this major new study will engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.