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Christopher Saxton's Atlas of England and Wales, published in 1579, brought surveyed county maps together in the first printed atlas of the two countries. Produced during Elizabeth I's reign, the work received support from Thomas Seckford and royal backing. Its maps record settlements and county div...
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Vindiciae contra Tyrannos is a Huguenot political treatise published in 1579 under the pseudonym Stephanus Junius Brutus. Written during the French Wars of Religion, it argues that civil magistrates and the people have a legitimate right to resist and depose a monarch who violates divine law or the...
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Influential resistance theory with substantial historical importance, though dense, authorship-disputed, and less accessible to general readers.
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