Sarah Mortimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1168894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Mortimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortimer |
| SIGNATURE | MORTIMER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Church of Christ |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5795-3107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Time, History, and Political Thought
Sacrifice and the limits of sovereignty 1589–1613
Although sovereign power is often defined as transcending legal and religious norms, the work of historians like Prodi and Agamben has drawn our attention to the ways in which modern accounts of sovereignty depend fundamentally upon the fusion and transformation of these norms. In Latin Christendom, this process was enabled by the juridical quality of ecclesiastical authority, its expression through laws similar in form and structure to those of …
Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought, by Joanne Paul
Journal Article Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought, by Joanne Paul Get access Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought, by Joanne Paul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp. 264. £75). Sarah Mortimer Sarah Mortimer Christ Church, Oxford, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5795-3107 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review,…
Sovereignty beyond natural law
The political works of Adam Blackwood (1539-1613) offer a powerful defence of absolute monarchy, and one which explicitly sets political power within a religious framework. Critiquing the resistance theories of his contemporaries, Blackwood was sceptical about the political value of natural law and of any appeal to popular sovereignty, at least in contemporary Europe. Blackwood was deeply troubled by the way Christianity was being used to justify…
Warfare, Christianity, and the Law of Nature
Early modern efforts to justify warfare entailed serious reflection on the relationship between Christianity and nature or natural law. Those working in a Thomist tradition could draw on a concept of natural law as an ethical system distinct from Christianity; others rejected that concept, working instead to show that warfare could form part of the duties of Christians. All sides recognized the tension between the words of Christ and the demands …
From the Margins to the Centre
Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613–1718
Hugo Grotius’ deep and lasting impact on English political and religious culture has often been acknowledged but rarely analysed. The Dutch scholar’s rich, complex writings offered an unparalleled set of intellectual resources to be used, abused and adapted as English readers wrestled with the political and religious problems of the seventeenth century. In this book, Marco Barducci has bravely sought to cover the reception of (most of) Grotius’ w…
Counsels of Perfection and Reformation Political Thought
The debate over counsels of perfection was a crucial aspect of the formation of political and ethical thought in the sixteenth century. It led both Protestants and Catholics to consider the status of law and to consider how far it obliged human beings, rather than simply permitting particular actions. From Luther onwards, Protestants came to see God's standards for human beings in absolute terms, rejecting any suggestion that there were good work…
Religious Tolerance in the Atlantic World
Leviathan and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
The problems of the Stuart multiple monarchy provide an important context for Hobbes's Leviathan. His fellow Royalists were divided over whether to use Scottish or Irish assistance in regaining Charles's throne, and Hobbes's work can be read as a qualified endorsement of his patrons' Scottish invasion strategy, to which a caustic assault on clerical power was then added. But Leviathan was more than a factional position paper; it was a Utopian mas…
Freedom and the Construction of Europe
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a cont…
God's Instruments
Although this is a collection of discrete essays, the volume is united by its central theme: ‘the synthesis of religious and political aspiration’ during the Cromwellian period (p. 400). Together, the chapters provide a rich and elegant account of the fruitful, but tense, relationship between theology and political thinking after the Civil Wars, offering the reader real insight into this complex conceptual world. Although all but one of the essay…
The Rule of Moderation
Thomas Bilson wrote, in 1593, ‘where no man doeth moderate, what peace can be had?’ (p. 12). For Bilson, a leading Elizabethan bishop, moderation was about control and restraint in the name of peace and good government; as this quotation implies, moderation could mean coercion and even punishment where this was necessary. In his new and fascinating study, Ethan Shagan explores the concept of moderation, showing its coercive, even at times brutal,…
The Church of England and Christian Antiquity
Commonplace Learning
Re-Evaluating Socinianism and Arminianism in Seventeenth-Century Europe
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Human Liberty and Human Nature in the Works of Faustus Socinus and His Readers
Human Liberty and Human Nature in the Works of Faustus Socinus and His Readers Sarah Mortimer I. Few issues were more hotly contested by early modern theologians than the extent of human liberty and its implications for both religion and society. In the Protestant world, the sixteenth century saw increasingly strident statements of mankind's bondage to sin and the importance of God's eternal decree of predestination, but the concept of human mora…
Human Liberty and Human Nature in the Works of Faustus Socinus and His Readers
Human Liberty and Human Nature in the Works of Faustus Socinus and His Readers Sarah Mortimer I. Few issues were more hotly contested by early modern theologians than the extent of human liberty and its implications for both religion and society. In the Protestant world, the sixteenth century saw increasingly strident statements of mankind's bondage to sin and the importance of God's eternal decree of predestination, but the concept of human mora…
Sovereignty beyond natural law
The political works of Adam Blackwood (1539-1613) offer a powerful defence of absolute monarchy, and one which explicitly sets political power within a religious framework. Critiquing the resistance theories of his contemporaries, Blackwood was sceptical about the political value of natural law and of any appeal to popular sovereignty, at least in contemporary Europe. Blackwood was deeply troubled by the way Christianity was being used to justify…
Commonplace Learning
Re-Evaluating Socinianism and Arminianism in Seventeenth-Century Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Human Liberty and Human Nature in the Works of Faustus Socinus and His Readers
Human Liberty and Human Nature in the Works of Faustus Socinus and His Readers Sarah Mortimer I. Few issues were more hotly contested by early modern theologians than the extent of human liberty and its implications for both religion and society. In the Protestant world, the sixteenth century saw increasingly strident statements of mankind's bondage to sin and the importance of God's eternal decree of predestination, but the concept of human mora…
The Church of England and Christian Antiquity
Freedom and the Construction of Europe
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a cont…
God's Instruments
Although this is a collection of discrete essays, the volume is united by its central theme: ‘the synthesis of religious and political aspiration’ during the Cromwellian period (p. 400). Together, the chapters provide a rich and elegant account of the fruitful, but tense, relationship between theology and political thinking after the Civil Wars, offering the reader real insight into this complex conceptual world. Although all but one of the essay…
The Rule of Moderation
Thomas Bilson wrote, in 1593, ‘where no man doeth moderate, what peace can be had?’ (p. 12). For Bilson, a leading Elizabethan bishop, moderation was about control and restraint in the name of peace and good government; as this quotation implies, moderation could mean coercion and even punishment where this was necessary. In his new and fascinating study, Ethan Shagan explores the concept of moderation, showing its coercive, even at times brutal,…
Religious Tolerance in the Atlantic World
Leviathan and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
The problems of the Stuart multiple monarchy provide an important context for Hobbes's Leviathan. His fellow Royalists were divided over whether to use Scottish or Irish assistance in regaining Charles's throne, and Hobbes's work can be read as a qualified endorsement of his patrons' Scottish invasion strategy, to which a caustic assault on clerical power was then added. But Leviathan was more than a factional position paper; it was a Utopian mas…
Counsels of Perfection and Reformation Political Thought
The debate over counsels of perfection was a crucial aspect of the formation of political and ethical thought in the sixteenth century. It led both Protestants and Catholics to consider the status of law and to consider how far it obliged human beings, rather than simply permitting particular actions. From Luther onwards, Protestants came to see God's standards for human beings in absolute terms, rejecting any suggestion that there were good work…
Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613–1718
Hugo Grotius’ deep and lasting impact on English political and religious culture has often been acknowledged but rarely analysed. The Dutch scholar’s rich, complex writings offered an unparalleled set of intellectual resources to be used, abused and adapted as English readers wrestled with the political and religious problems of the seventeenth century. In this book, Marco Barducci has bravely sought to cover the reception of (most of) Grotius’ w…
From the Margins to the Centre
Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought, by Joanne Paul
Journal Article Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought, by Joanne Paul Get access Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought, by Joanne Paul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp. 264. £75). Sarah Mortimer Sarah Mortimer Christ Church, Oxford, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5795-3107 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review,…
Sovereignty beyond natural law
The political works of Adam Blackwood (1539-1613) offer a powerful defence of absolute monarchy, and one which explicitly sets political power within a religious framework. Critiquing the resistance theories of his contemporaries, Blackwood was sceptical about the political value of natural law and of any appeal to popular sovereignty, at least in contemporary Europe. Blackwood was deeply troubled by the way Christianity was being used to justify…
Warfare, Christianity, and the Law of Nature
Early modern efforts to justify warfare entailed serious reflection on the relationship between Christianity and nature or natural law. Those working in a Thomist tradition could draw on a concept of natural law as an ethical system distinct from Christianity; others rejected that concept, working instead to show that warfare could form part of the duties of Christians. All sides recognized the tension between the words of Christ and the demands …
Time, History, and Political Thought
Sacrifice and the limits of sovereignty 1589–1613
Although sovereign power is often defined as transcending legal and religious norms, the work of historians like Prodi and Agamben has drawn our attention to the ways in which modern accounts of sovereignty depend fundamentally upon the fusion and transformation of these norms. In Latin Christendom, this process was enabled by the juridical quality of ecclesiastical authority, its expression through laws similar in form and structure to those of …
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