Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes''s evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes''s accommodation with England''s revolutionary regime. In sustaining these conclusi...