Like Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil WarThis book examines the literary, religious, and political aspects of the radical movements and various sects of the English Civil War. Featuring a chapter on John Milton, this book also addresses the legal problems that engaged the early modern radical reformers, the issue of radical religion as a negotiating tool and the limits of radical liberal thought. |
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... Norman among these writers , referred with any regularity to Bohemond's southern Italians as Normans appears to bear out the view that by c.1100 Norman identity was waning among the settlers in South Italy . No less telling is that well ...
... Norman among these writers , referred with any regularity to Bohemond's southern Italians as Normans appears to bear out the view that by c.1100 Norman identity was waning among the settlers in South Italy . No less telling is that well ...
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... Normans and their Myth in the same year as Le Patourel's Norman Empire was something of a remarkable coincidence.31 In arguing against the whole notion of a single unified Norman world that had animated historians up until that time, as ...
... Normans and their Myth in the same year as Le Patourel's Norman Empire was something of a remarkable coincidence.31 In arguing against the whole notion of a single unified Norman world that had animated historians up until that time, as ...
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Contents
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John Warr the Levellers and John Locke | 57 |
Digger Radicalism Revisited | 107 |
The Delayed Radicalism of the Ranters | 155 |
Notes | 185 |
Bibliography | 203 |
Index | 209 |
Back cover | 213 |
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Like Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil War Prasanta Chakravarty No preview available - 2015 |
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