Concept

English Civil War

Overview

series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed English Civil War

• R. H. Tawney
• William Godwin
• John Locke
• Tommaso Campanella
• John Amos Comenius
• Thomas Hobbes

Related ideas

• Glorious Revolution
• Ireland
• Leviathan (Hobbes book)
• Marxism
• New England
• Oxford
• Oliver Cromwell
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Archbishop of Canterbury
• Pejorative
• Puritans
• Presbyterianism
• Statute
• James VI and I
• Scotland
• Walter Scott
• Thomas Hobbes
• Religious tolerance
• Kingdom of England
• Black Death
• West Indies
• Church of England
• Catholic Church
• Republic of Venice

Opposing perspectives

• John Calvin
• State religion

Place in the tradition

Part of British philosophy.

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