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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... fact, this essay tries to underscore the significant inner contradictions within each sect as well as the internecine struggles that mark the rise, flourishing and subsequent demise of such sects within the context of the Civil War. The ...
... fact, this essay tries to underscore the significant inner contradictions within each sect as well as the internecine struggles that mark the rise, flourishing and subsequent demise of such sects within the context of the Civil War. The ...
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... fact, the early modern radical liberal tradition simultaneously developed along with mainstream varieties of liberalism. The usual trajectory of the historiography of liberalism of the English Civil War has been to locate a tradition ...
... fact, the early modern radical liberal tradition simultaneously developed along with mainstream varieties of liberalism. The usual trajectory of the historiography of liberalism of the English Civil War has been to locate a tradition ...
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... fact, Marcha- mont Nedham's writings show that the oligarchic republicanism of the 1650s was in part a response to a more representative and popular republicanism that had been advocated by the Levellers in the previous decade. Nigel ...
... fact, Marcha- mont Nedham's writings show that the oligarchic republicanism of the 1650s was in part a response to a more representative and popular republicanism that had been advocated by the Levellers in the previous decade. Nigel ...
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... fact, a radical liberal welcomes non-interference in private matters. Rather it reacts against every kind of political and social domination and to that end, sets civic virtue in opposition to domination. Even the Miltonic idea of law ...
... fact, a radical liberal welcomes non-interference in private matters. Rather it reacts against every kind of political and social domination and to that end, sets civic virtue in opposition to domination. Even the Miltonic idea of law ...
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... fact that the radical lib- eral, unlike his moderate counterpart, accepts and uses the liberating poten- tial within religion for individual and communal purposes. One of the central aims of this study, instantiated through the vari ...
... fact that the radical lib- eral, unlike his moderate counterpart, accepts and uses the liberating poten- tial within religion for individual and communal purposes. One of the central aims of this study, instantiated through the vari ...
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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