Abstract:This article explores an ideological basis for a Stuart royal empire in early modern Britain that encompassed not just the three kingdoms of the Atlantic archipelago but also the overseas possessions held by the Crown. It argues that contemporaries articulated and acknowledged, especially from the 1620s into the 1680s, a fully realized entity, headed by the Stuart monarchs, and that royalism was one of the defining ideological foundations of this empire. By recovering this language of empire, it becomes possible to provide a more holistic narrative of the intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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1542-1698 年皇家帝国和英格兰皇冠的理念

摘要：本文探讨了近代英国早期斯图亚特皇家帝国的意识形态基础，该帝国不仅包括大西洋群岛的三个王国，还包括王室持有的海外财产。它认为，同时代人表达并承认，特别是从 1620 年代到 1680 年代，一个完全实现的实体，由斯图亚特君主领导，并且保皇主义是这个帝国的决定性意识形态基础之一。通过恢复这种帝国语言，可以更全面地叙述 16 和 17 世纪的思想史。