Freedom of speech, 15001850
Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
General Editors
PROFESSOR ALASTAIR BELLANY
DR ALEXANDRA GAJDA
PROFESSOR PETER LAKE
PROFESSOR ANTHONY MILTON
PROFESSOR JASON PEACEY
This important series publishes monographs that take a fresh and challenging look at the interactions between politics, culture and society in Britain between 1500 and the mid-eighteenth century. It counteracts the fragmentation of current historiography through encouraging a variety of approaches which attempt to redefine the political, social and cultural worlds, and to explore their interconnection in a flexible and creative fashion. All the volumes in the series question and transcend traditional interdisciplinary boundaries, such as those between political history and literary studies, social history and divinity, urban history and anthropology. They thus contribute to a broader understanding of crucial developments in early modern Britain.
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Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth: The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, theelder (15461611) FELICITY JANE STOUT
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Contents
Freedom of speech in England and the anglophone world, 15001850
Jason Peacey, Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber
Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England
Joanne Paul
Pearls before swine: limiting godly speech in early seventeenth-century England
Karl Gunther
Free speech in Elizabethan and early Stuart England
Peter Lake
The origins of the concept of freedom of the press
David Como
Swift and free speech
David Womersley
Defending the truth: arguments for free speech and their limits in early eighteenth-century Britain and France
Ann Thomson
The warr against heaven by blasphemors and infidels: prosecuting heresy in Enlightenment England
Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber
David Hume and Of the Liberty of the Press (1741) in its original contexts
Max Skjnsberg
The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the US Constitution, 178788
Patrick Peel
Before and beyond On Liberty: Samuel Bailey and the nineteenth-century theory of free speech
Greg Conti
Unfree, unequal, unempirical: press freedom, British India and Mills theory of the public
Christopher Barker