Lawson: Politica sacra et civilis by George Lawson, Conal Con... - 9780521392488

Lawson: Politica sacra et civilisAuthor(s): George Lawson, Conal Condren\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521392488, 978-0521392488\nSynopsis\nLawson's Politica is a systematic treatise on politics in church and state, and is arguably the most significant work of political theory to have been printed during the Restoration crisis of [tel]. The work was widely discussed during the seventeenth century and its conceptual vocabulary applied in discussions of the Revolution of 16889, when it was also posthumously republished. Despite Lawson's fame, however, his work fell into relative obscurity during the eighteenth century but it has recently been the subject of renewed scholarly interest. Politica has been reassessed as both historically and theoretically significant, and Lawson's contextual and interpretative importance emphasised, as a writer who enriches our understanding of Hobbes and Locke. T.