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1alibrarian
My most recent purchases are The rise of the New Model Army by Mark Kishlansky and Visionary women : ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England by Phyllis Mack and I hope to read them soon.
Anyone want to recommend titles?
Anyone want to recommend titles?
2AsYouKnow_Bob
(I think you haven't had an answer because you're working the topic at a deeper level than the rest of the us here.)
Me, I'm a dilettante - my knowledge of the 17th century is more at the 'Christopher Hill' level. I know the general outlines, but can't tell my Muggletonians from my Levellers without a scorecard.
I've heard of a recent book (but can't vouch for it personally) that argues that the Ranters were actually more of a conservative 'boogieman' than a real movement: J.C. Davis' Fear, Myth and History (CUP, 0521894190). ('Touchstones' didn't work, possibly because it's a new book that I saw reviewed in a recent LRB.)
OK, let me turn it around: what would YOU recommend for the interested reader who knows the broad history of the English Civil War? I'd tell people to start with Hill's The World Turned Upside Down.
Me, I'm a dilettante - my knowledge of the 17th century is more at the 'Christopher Hill' level. I know the general outlines, but can't tell my Muggletonians from my Levellers without a scorecard.
I've heard of a recent book (but can't vouch for it personally) that argues that the Ranters were actually more of a conservative 'boogieman' than a real movement: J.C. Davis' Fear, Myth and History (CUP, 0521894190). ('Touchstones' didn't work, possibly because it's a new book that I saw reviewed in a recent LRB.)
OK, let me turn it around: what would YOU recommend for the interested reader who knows the broad history of the English Civil War? I'd tell people to start with Hill's The World Turned Upside Down.
