Author:
Hill, Christopher, 1912-2003.
Imprint:Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1985-1986.
Description3 v. ; 23 cm.
Note:V. 1. Writing and revolution in 17th-century England: I. Introductory: 1. The pre-revolutionary decades -- 2. Censorship and English literature -- II. Prose: 3. From Marprelate to the Levellers -- 4. Sir John Berkenhead (1617-79) -- 5. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) and Robinson Crusoe -- III. Seven poets: 6. George Wither (1588-1667) and John Milton (1608-74) -- 7. John Milton (1608-74) and Andrew Marvell (1621-78) -- 8. Francis Quarles (1592-1644) and Edward Benlowes (1602-76) -- 9. Henry Vaughan (1621 or 1622?-1695) -- 10. Thomas Traherne (1637-74) -- IV. Two diarists: 11. John Evelyn (1620-1706) -- 12. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) -- V. Two radical royalists: 13. Samuel Butler (1613-80) -- 14. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- VI. Some conclusions.
Note:V. 2. Religion and politics in 17th-century England: I. Introductory: 1. History and denominational history -- 2. The necessity of religion -- II. The first century of the Church of England: 3. The Protestant nation -- 4. The problem of authority -- 5. The state-ecclesiastical -- 6. From Grindal to Laud -- III. Heresy and radical politics: 7. From Lollards to Levellers -- 8. Sin and society -- 9. Dr Tobias Crisp (1600-43) -- 10. Antinomianism in 17th-century England -- 11. The religion of Gerrard Wistanley -- IV. The millennium and after: 12. John Reeve, Laurence Clarkson and Lodowick Muggleton -- 13. "Till the conversion of the Jews" -- 14. Occasional conformity and the Grindalian tradition -- 15. God and the English Revolution.
Note:V. 3. People and ideas in 17th-century England: I. Introduction--two fragments on history: 1. Partial historians and total history -- 2. Answers and questions -- II. The English Revolution: 3. Parliament and people in 17th-century England [with postscript] -- 4. Oliver Cromwell -- 5. A bourgeois revolution? [with postscript] -- 6. Braudel and the state -- III. People: 7. The Lisle letters -- 8. Radical pirates? -- 9. Sex, marriage and parish registers [with postscript] -- 10. Male homosexuality in 17th-century England -- 11. Karl Marx and Britain -- IV. Ideas: 12. The poor and the people -- 13. Science and magic [with postscript] -- 14. Covenant theology and the concept of "a public person."
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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