1. See David L. Smith, ‘The Fourth Earl of Dorset and the Personal Rule of Charles I’, Journal of British Studies, 30 (1991) 257–87;
2. Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1991) p. 24.
3. J. H. M. Salmon, ‘The Legacy of Jean Bodin: Absolutism, Populism or Constitutionalism?’, History of Political Thought, 17 (1996), 500–21; on Bodin’s qualified absolutism,
4. Julian H. Franklin, ‘Sovereignty and the Mixed Constitution: Bodin and His Critics’, in J. H. Burns and M. Goldie (eds), The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450–1700 (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 298–328.
5. See, most recently, Georg Schmidt, Geschichte des Alten Reiches (München, 1999), pp. 166–72;