The "monarchomachs": resistance theory, tyrannicide, and contract.
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George Buchanan, De jure regni apud Scotos |
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Theodore Beza, De jure magistratuum in subditos |
Suggested reading
Another text (in English) of Buchanan is "The Powers of the Crown in Scotland: A Dialogue"; and another, which includes the Latin original as well as a seventeenth-century English translation, is De Iure Regni Apud Scotos Dialogus (1579).
Baumgartner, Frederic J. (1975), Radical reactionaries: the
political thought of the French Catholic League Geneva, Librairie
Droz, 1975.
[Good, clear discussion.]
Burns, J. H., "George Buchanan and the anti-monarchomachs," in Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner, eds, Political discourse in early modern Britain, Cambridge 1993.
Burns, J. H., The True Law of Kingship. Concepts of Monarchy in Early Modern Scotland, 1996.
Clancy, T. H., Papist pamphleteers: the Allen-Parsons party and
the political thought of the Counter-Reformation in England, 1572-1615,
Chicago 1964.
[Good, clear account.]
Franklin, Julian, Constitutionalism and Resistance in the Sixteenth Century, New
York 1969
[Contains abridgements of Beza and of two other important monarchomach
works - the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos and Hotman's Francogallia.]
Friedeburg, Robert von, "In defence of Patria: Resisting magistrates and the duties of patriots in the Empire from the 1530s to the 1640s" in The Sixteenth Century Journal, 32 (2001), pp 357-82
Gelderen, Martin Van, "A Political theory of the Dutch Revolt and the Vindiciae contra tyrannos", Il Pensiero politico, 19 (1986) pp. 163-81.
Gelderen, Martin Van, The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555-1590,
CUP 1992
[Important survey.]
[Excellent introduction.]
Lewy, Guenter, Constitutionalism and statecraft during the golden age of Spain: a study of the political philosophy of Juan de Mariana, S.J., Geneva, Droz, 1960.
Lloyd, Howell A., "Constitutionalism," in J. H. Burns, ed., with the assistance of Mark Goldie, The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, 254-97.
Mason, Roger A., "George Buchanan, James VI, and the Presbyterians," in Roger A. Mason, ed., Scots and Britons, CUP 1994, 112-137.
Salmon, J. H. M., The French religious wars in English political thought, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1959.
Salmon, J. H. M., Renaissance and Revolt: essays in the intellectual and social history of early modern France, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Salmon, J. H. M., "Catholic resistance theory, Ultramontanism, and the
royalist response, 1580-1620," in J. H. Burns, ed., with the
assistance of Mark Goldie, The Cambridge History of Political
Thought 1450-1700, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991,
219-53.
[Fine introduction.]
Skinner, Quentin .The foundations of modern political thought, vol. 2 contains much that is relevant.
Sommerville, J. P., Royalists and Patriots. Politics and Ideology in England 1603-1640, 1999, [especially chapter 2.]
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Questions |
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Did the resistance theorists succeed in refuting absolutism? To what extent did the monrachomachs' case rely on religious arguments, as opposed to arguments drawn from natural law and reason? What differences, if any, were there between the theories of the Protestant and the Catholic monarchomachs?What can be said in support of the idea that the theories of the monarchomachs were profoundly anarchic? |
