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Author : James Colin Davis
Release : 2002-05-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Fear, Myth and History by : James Colin Davis
Download or read book Fear, Myth and History written by James Colin Davis. This book was released on 2002-05-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that there was no Ranter group or movement: that the Ranters did not exist.
Author : j.c davis
Release : 1986
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Book Synopsis Fear,myth & History by : j.c davis
Download or read book Fear,myth & History written by j.c davis. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Cressy
Release : 1999-11-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 946/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Agnes Bowker's Cat by : David Cressy
Download or read book Agnes Bowker's Cat written by David Cressy. This book was released on 1999-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a world is this? It is marvelous, it is monstrous! I hear say there is a young woman, born in the town of Harborough, one Bowker, a butcher's daughter, which of late, God wot, is bought to bed of a cat, or have delivered a cat, or, if you will, is the mother of a cat! Oh God!" William Bullein - Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence (1578) David Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. Drawing on local texts and narratives he reveals how a series of troubling and unorthodox happenings-bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, nakedness and cross-dressing, excommunication and irregular burial, iconoclasm and vandalism-disturbed the margins, cut across the grain, and set the authorities on edge.
Author : Edward Vallance
Release : 2013-04-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 773/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Radical History Of Britain by : Edward Vallance
Download or read book A Radical History Of Britain written by Edward Vallance. This book was released on 2013-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the British people who fought and died for religious freedom, universal suffrage, justice and liberty - and shows why, now more than ever, their heroic achievements must be celebrated. Beginning with Magna Carta, Vallance subjects the touchstones of British radicalism to rigorous scrutiny. He evokes the figureheads of radical action, real and mythic - Robin Hood and Captain Swing, Wat Tyler, Ned Ludd, Thomas Paine and Emmeline Pankhurst - and the popular movements that bore them. Lollards and Levellers, Diggers, Ranters and Chartists, each has its membership, principles and objectives revealed.
Author : John Gurney
Release : 2013-07-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brave community by : John Gurney
Download or read book Brave community written by John Gurney. This book was released on 2013-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste land at St George’s Hill in Surrey and called on all poor people to join them or follow their example. Acting at a time of unparalleled political change and heightened millenarian expectation, the Diggers believed that the establishment of an egalitarian, property-less society was imminent. This book should be of interest to all those interested in England’s mid-seventeenth-century revolution and in the history of radical movements.
