Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe : England and Germany, 1530–1680

This study explores the emergence of the nationally diverging paths taken by England and Germany in relation to the legal concept of self-defence.

It explores how various theories of legitimate resistance to authority were developed and how they came to influence one another.

In particular it is argued that German theories played a much greater role than has hitherto been acknowledged in influencing English concepts of "natural rights" as discussed by such men as Parker and Locke.