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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465691203321

Autore

Gurney John

Titolo

Brave community [[electronic resource] ] : the Digger movement in the English Revolution / / John Gurney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-78170-074-5

1-84779-143-3

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain

Disciplina

942.06/2

Soggetti

Levellers

Electronic books.

Cobham (Kent, England) History 17th century

Cobham (Kent, England) Social conditions 17th century

England Social conditions 17th century

Great Britain Politics and government 1625-1649

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published by Manchester University Press in hardback, 2009"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Parish, community and social relations in Cobham -- The parish of Cobham and the Civil War -- Gerrard Winstanley -- Winstanley : the early writings -- The Diggers on St. George's Hill -- The Diggers and the local community -- Aftermath.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first 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



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Record Nr.

UNISA996395294003316

Autore

Drexel Jeremias <1581-1638.>

Titolo

The hive of devotion, or, The saints evidence for heaven [[electronic resource] ] : containing 12 infallible signes of our election to eternall happinesse, and likewise a short tractate concerning the paucity or fewnesse of those that shall be saved / / written at first in Latin, by that master of meditiation, Hier. Drexelivs ; now at the request of a deare friend translated, with many corrections, by one of the fellowes of Trin. Colledge in Cambridge ; who has annexed to the forenamed treatises a cordiall for afflicted minds and tender consciences

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for R. Best, 1647

Descrizione fisica

[24], 357 [i.e. 355] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill

Soggetti

Election (Theology)

Salvation

Theology, Doctrinal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Added engraved t.p. with ms. signature: Anne Vertue her booke 1662.

Numerous errors in paging.

Errata: p. [24]

Imperfect: pages faded and tightly bound, with some loss of print.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018