Social Conflict in early Stuart England Eight lectures given by PETER LASLETT Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge at the University of Warwick
5; Thomas Hobbes : the intellectual in a time of crisis
Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is the most important justification of obedience of this or perhaps any other period.
Mr. Laslett discusses how the book is related to the model of society that he Is describing: and asks whether it is legitimate to conclude from the absolutist character that there must have been revolutionary forces at work in contemporary English society.
Austin Woolrych on Puritanism and Politics in the early seven-teenth century: Thurs., 7.0 p.m.