Staff Profile:Professor Alan Cromartie
- Name:
- Professor Alan Cromartie
- Job Title:
- Professor
- Responsibilities:
Postgraduate Research Director
Biography:
I started my career as a political historian with an interest in the causes of the English Revolution. This led me to investigate the ‘constitutionalism’ that was then a central feature of English political culture (the fact that political questions were framed in legal terms). My book The Constitutionalist Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) explores the preconditions and the practical effects of the spread of constitutionalist assumptions. The prominence of strategists in Reading’s research culture gave me an additional interest in thinking about war. At present, I am writing a large-scale book about Hobbes: The context of Leviathan: a biographical study.
Qualifications:
MA, PhD (Cantab.)
Affiliations:
The Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network
- Areas of Interest:
- The history of political thought (especially, but not exclusively, in early modern England)
- Military Ethics
- The idea of rights
- The philosophy of history
Research Supervision:
I am always happy to discuss proposals for PhD research in the history of political thought
- Research groups / Centres:
Political Theory Centre
Research grants / Awards:
Programme Director of the Major Leverhulme Research Programme ‘The Liberal Way of War’
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 24.
2021
- Cromartie, A. (2021) The testimony of the spirit, the decline of Calvinism, and the origins of restoration rational religion. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 72 (1). pp. 71-94. ISSN 1469-7637 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046920000068
2019
- Cromartie, A. (2019) Democracy, toleration, and the interests of the people. In: Cuttica, C. and Peltonen, M. (eds.) Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603–1689. Brill, Leiden, pp. 45-65. ISBN 978900438586
2018
- Cromartie, A. (2018) Hobbes, Calvinism, and Determinism. In: van Apeldoorn, L. and Douglass, R. (eds.) Hobbes on Politics and Religion. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198803409
2017
- Cromartie, A. (2017) Epieikeia and conscience. In: Hutson, L. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 320-336. ISBN 9780199660889
2016
- Cromartie, A. (2016) Parliamentary sovereignty, popular sovereignty, and Henry Parker's adjudicative standpoint. In: Bourke, R. and Skinner, Q. (eds.) Popular sovereignty in historical perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 142-163. ISBN 9781107130401
2015
- Cromartie, A. (2015) War, sovereignty, and civilization from Bodin to Rawls. In: Cromartie, A. (ed.) Liberal wars: Anglo-American strategy, ideology, and practice. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 107-127. ISBN 9781138840119
- Cromartie, A. (2015) Introduction. In: Cromartie, A. (ed.) Liberal wars: Anglo-American strategy, ideology, and practice. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9781138840119
- Cromartie, A. (2015) The persistence of royalism. In: The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 317-413. ISBN 9780199695898
2012
- Cromartie, A. (2012) Field manual 3-24 and the heritage of counterinsurgency theory. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 41 (1). pp. 91-111. ISSN 1477-9021 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812451973
- Cromartie, A. (2012) Afterword: knowing knowing al-Qaeda. In: Hellmich, C. and Behnke, A. (eds.) Knowing Al-Qaeda: the epistemology of terrorism. Rethinking political and international theory. Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, pp. 167-172. ISBN 9781409423669
2011
- Cromartie, A. (2011) The mind of William Laud. In: Prior, C. A.W. and Burgess, G. (eds.) England's wars of religion,revisited. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 75-100. ISBN 9781409419730
- Cromartie, A. (2011) 'The Elements' and Hobbesian moral thinking. History of Political Thought, 32 (1). pp. 21-47. ISSN 0143-781X
2009
- Cromartie, A. (2009) Hobbes, history, and non-domination. Hobbes Studies, 22 (2). pp. 171-177. ISSN 1875-0257
2008
- Cromartie, A. D. (2008) The God of Thomas Hobbes. Historical Journal, 51 (4). pp. 857-879. ISSN 1469-5103 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X08007103
2007
- Cromartie, A. (2007) The idea of common law as custom. In: Murphy, J. B. and Perreau-Saussine, A. (eds.) The nature of customary law: legal, historical and philosophical perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 203-227. ISBN 9780521875110
2006
- Cromartie, A. (2006) King James and the Hampton Court Conference. In: Houlbrooke, R. (ed.) James VI and I: ideas, authority, and government. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 63-80. ISBN 9780754654100
- Cromartie, A. (2006) The constitutionalist revolution: an essay on the history of England, 1450–1642. Ideas in Context (75). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp326. ISBN 9780521782692
2005
- Cromartie, A. D. (2005) Thomas Hobbes, a dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England. In: Cromartie, A. D. (ed.) Thomas Hobbes, Writings on common law and hereditary right. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp272. ISBN 9780199236237
2004
- Cromartie, A. D. (2004) Common law, counsel and consent in Fortescue's political theory. In: Clark, L. and Carpenter, C. (eds.) The Fifteenth Century IV: Political Culture in Late Medieval Britain. Woodbridge, pp. 45-67. ISBN 9781843831068
2000
- Cromartie, A. (2000) Unwritten law in Hobbesian political thought. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2 (2). pp. 161-178. ISSN 1369-1481 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.00032
- Cromartie, A. (2000) Theology and politics in Richard Hooker's thought. History of Political Thought, XXI (1). pp. 41-66. ISSN 0143-781X
1999
- Cromartie, A. (1999) The constitutionalist revolution: the transformation of political culture in early Stuart England. Past & Present, 163 (1). pp. 76-120. ISSN 1477-464X doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/past/163.1.76
1998
- Cromartie, A. (1998) Harringtonian virtue: Harrington, Machiavelli, and the method of the 'Moment'. The Historical Journal, 41 (4). 987-1009 . ISSN 0018-246X
1995
- Cromartie, A. (1995) Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676: Law, religion and natural philosophy. Cambridge studies in early modern British history. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-45043-8
Other major publications include: Sir Matthew Hale: law, religion and natural philosophy (Cambridge, 1995)