Staff Profile:Alan Cromartie
- Name:
- Professor Alan Cromartie
- Job Title:
- Professor
- Responsibilities:
I am the author of Sir Matthew Hale: law, religion, and natural philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995) and The constitutionalist revolution: an essay on the history of England (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006), and the editor of Thomas Hobbes, A dialogue between a philosopher and student, of the common laws of England (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005). My present large-scale project is a monograph on Hobbes, but I have written on topics from Aristotle to John Rawls. I also enjoyed being Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Programme The Liberal Way of War for which I did work that ranged from a study of the role played by the concept of 'civilization' in thinking about war to analysis of a counterinsurgency manual. I retain an interest in military ethics. I welcome the chance to supervise postgraduate research in the history of political thought (especially in the early modern period) and the philosophy of history.
- Areas of Interest:
- Political Theory
- History of Political Thought
- Philosophy of History
- The Ethics of War
Feedback and consultation hours:
- Tuesday 12:00 - 13:00
- Research groups / Centres:
- Political Theory Centre
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 23.
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)
- Qualifications:
- MA, PhD (Cantab.)
