This volume explores the degree to which seventeenth-century ideas and expressions of sovereignty underpin political modernity.

• Introduction


• The Crown as Machine: Hobbes and Lord Saye


• Provincializing Romance


• Milton's Unitary Sovereignty


• Marvell's Dread of the Sword


• Epilogue: Uzzah and the Protection-Obedience Axiom

Feisal G. Mohamed is Professor of English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where he also serves as coordinator of The Program in Global Early Modern Studies. His previous books include In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton (2008) and Milton and the Post-secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism (2011). He is a past recipient of a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, which provided second-discipline training in law.