Behemoth: a History of the Causes of the English Civil War
by M
About This Novel
The English Revolution that broke out in 1640 started the process of modern world history. Religious disputes, ethnic conflicts, and conflicts between the royal power and parliament tore Britain apart. Civil war and revolution raged for decades. National sovereignty changed hands many times, and a true and cruel "Game of Thrones" was staged. The political thinker Thomas Hobbes personally experienced this turbulent era, and in his later years wrote the political history work "Behemoth", which focused on the English Civil War. The book is based on the political turmoil in England from 1637 to 1660. It adopts the form of dialogue to discuss the causes of the British Civil War, the occurrence and development of the Civil War, and Hobbes's own views on the Civil War. The title of the book is named after the land monster "Behemoth" in the Bible, echoing the book "Leviathan" named after the sea monster "Leviathan". It can be said that "Behemoth" is Hobbes's analysis of the British Civil War using his mature political theory in his later years, and it is the application of the national theory he constructed in "Leviathan".
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