Introduction: Catholics, royalists, cosmopolitans: writing England into the Christian commonwealth
Papal supremacy and the citizen of the world
Border-crossing and translation: the cosmopolitics of Edmund Campion, S.J., Anthony Munday, and Sir John Harington
Cosmopolitan romance: Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and the fiction of imperial justice
Traitor or cosmopolitan? Captain Thomas Stukeley in the courts of Christendom
From foreign war to civil war: the royalist reinvention of the Christian commonwealth
The Christian nation and beyond: Camões's Os Lusíadas and John Milton's cosmopolitan republic
Royalist turned cosmopolitan: Aphra Behn's portrait of the prostituted sovereign
Conclusion: The public sphere and the legacy of the Christian commonwealth.