Introduction Quentin Skinner; Part I. The Rejection of Monarchy: 1. 'That a republic is better than a monarchy': anti-monarchism in Early Modern Dutch political thought Wyger Velema; 2. Anti-monarchism in English republicanism Martin Dzelzainis; 3. Anti-monarchism in Polish republicanism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz; 4. Classical republicanism in seventeenth-century England and the Netherlands Jonathan Scott; Part II. The Republican Citizen: 5. Citizenship and republicanism in Elizabethan England Markku Peltonen; 6. Republican citizenship and civic humanism in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands (1477-1556) Karin Tilmans; 7. Civic humanism and republican citizenship in early modern Germany Robert von Friedeburg; 8. Civic humanism and republican citizenship in the Polish renaissance Edward Opalinski; Part III. The Republican Constitution: 9. From the crisis of civil culture to the republic of Naples in 1647 Ivo Comparato; 10. Aristotelians, Monarchomachs and Republicans: sovereignty and Respublica Mixta in Dutch and German, 1580-1650 Martin van Gelderen; 11. Natural Law and Respublica Mixta: Dutch and German political discourses around 1700 Hans Erich Bodeker; 12. Classical foundational myths of European Republicanism: the Jewish Commonwealth Lea Campos Boralevi; 13. Republican politics in Early Modern Spain: the Castilian and the Catalano-Aragonese Traditions Xavier Gil; 14. The idea of a Republican constitution in Old Regime France Kent Wright; 15. Republicanism, regicide and republic: the English experience Blair Worden; Index.