Radical Religion in Cromwell's England: a Concise History from the English Civil War to the End of the Commonwealth
The present state of the old world is running up like parchment in the fire.' So declaimed Gerrard Winstanley, charismatic leader of radical religious group the Diggers, in mid-seventeenth century England: one of the most turbulent periods in that country's history. As three civil wars divided and slaughtered families and communities, as failing harvests and land reforms forced many to the edge of starvation, and as longstanding institutions like the House of Lords, the Established Church and e…
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- Full title :Radical Religion in Cromwell's England : a Concise History from the English Civil War to the End of the Commonwealth.
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The present state of the old world is running up like parchment in the fire.' So declaimed Gerrard Winstanley, charismatic leader of radical religious group the Diggers, in mid-seventeenth century England: one of the most turbulent periods in that country's history. As three civil wars divided and slaughtered families and communities, as failing harvests and land reforms forced many to the edge of starvation, and as longstanding institutions like the House of Lords, the Established Church and even the monarchy were unceremoniously dismantled, so a feverish sense of living on the cusp of a new.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris & Co
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (216 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780857718723, 085771872X, 9780857732033, 085773203X
- oclc:ocn781370372
- LC Classification:BR756 .B73 2011
- Dewey Decimal:320.5312094209032
Table of Contents
Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Baptists; Chapter 2 -- Levellers; Chapter 3 -- Diggers; Chapter 4 -- Ranters; Chapter 5 -- Quakers; Chapter 6 -- Fifth Monarchists; Chapter 7 -- Muggletonians; Conclusion; Notes; Further Reading; Index.
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