Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.

Jamie A. Gianoutsos is Associate Professor of History at Mount Saint Mary's University, Maryland. She has been a recipient of IHR Mellon Pre-Dissertation, Huntington Library, and Charles Singleton Center Fellowships, and has published articles in History of Education and Renaissance Quarterly.

Part I. Emasculated Kingship: 1. Tyranny, manhood, and the study of history; 2. A chaste Virginia: tyranny and the corruption of law in Jacobean England; 3. 'And thus did the wicked sonne murther his wicked mother': Nero and the tyrannical household in late Jacobean England; 4. Neronian corruption in Caroline England; Part II. The Masculine Republic: 5. John Milton, marriage, and the realisation of Republican manhood; 6. 'Begin now to know themselves men, and to breath after liberty': Marchamont Nedham and the Republican empire; 7. 'So much power and piety in one': Oliver Cromwell and the masculine republic.