Fear, Myth and History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fear, Myth and History write by James Colin Davis. This book was released on 2002-05-09. Fear, Myth and History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that there was no Ranter group or movement: that the Ranters did not exist.
Agnes Bowker's Cat
Agnes Bowker's Cat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agnes Bowker's Cat write by David Cressy. This book was released on 1999-11-19. Agnes Bowker's Cat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
A Radical History Of Britain
A Radical History Of Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Radical History Of Britain write by Edward Vallance. This book was released on 2013-04-04. A Radical History Of Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Brave community
Brave community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brave community write by John Gurney. This book was released on 2013-07-19. Brave community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 2
Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 2 write by Geoff Kemp. This book was released on 2024-08-01. Censorship and the Press, 1580-1720, Volume 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England. This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140 years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced principles of free speech.
