Politics
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Was Charles I responsible for his own execution?
Since the days of the Samuel Rawson Gardiner, history has portrayed Charles I of England as a man lacking in any visible virtue, be them kingly or otherwise. Hill named him a ‘petulant and obstinate king’. Morrill called him ‘incompetent’, Russell, ‘uncompromising’. Indeed, the historiography of Charles I; Whigs, Marxists, Revisionists and Post-Revisionists has been… Continue reading
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Machiavelli’s Political Thought
In the year 1512, the Medici regime was restored in Florence, and Niccolò Machiavelli was dismissed from his office in the Florentine Chancellery; exiled to Sant’ Andrea da Percussina. During the succeeding fifteen years, he wrote the literary works that became his namesake, including; The Prince and the Discourses. These two works were, novel and… Continue reading
Izaak Tanna 