The years 1649-1650 witnessed the emergence of two prominent radical sects of the British Civil Wars – the Diggers and the Ranters. While the former were members of organised communities that pursued a communistic agenda, the latter were more of a loose group of individuals who produced prophetic tracts. Yet, the Diggers and the Ranters held similar heterodox views – although there were significant differences between them, and they both made a point of distancing themselves from each other; both arguably advocated and practised a form of mystical radicalism. This essay focuses on the way these two sects were represented in contemporary newsbooks, from the time of the regicide and the establishment of the Commonwealth to the passing of the ...
Puritans entered a novel position of power in the early 1640s. Their attempts to ‘combat’ heretics a...
Following the English invasion of Scotland in July 1650, ministers and laymen in the Church of Scotl...
The radical visionaries of the civil war era had several royalist counterparts, today often overlook...
This paper is a survey of newspaper articles published in 1649 concerning an apparently trivial even...
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Puritans entered a novel position of power in the early 1640s. Their attempts to ‘combat’ heretics a...
Following the English invasion of Scotland in July 1650, ministers and laymen in the Church of Scotl...
The radical visionaries of the civil war era had several royalist counterparts, today often overlook...
This paper is a survey of newspaper articles published in 1649 concerning an apparently trivial even...
The Diggers were small groups that appeared after the English Civil War who cultivated common land w...
This article explores the polemical presentation of Oxford, the royalist capital between 1642 and 16...
International audienceThe six articles presented in this issue began life as papers delivered to the...
This book starts with an extraordinary event and document. The event is the trial and execution for ...
This thesis explores the presentation of the war over the Rhine Palatinate in British printed pamph...
This article identifies the personalities and circumstances behind two previously unknown heterodox ...
Press historians argue that the press boom of 1695 transformed the way in which English men and wome...
This study aims both to build upon and to challenge recent historiographical interest in the cultura...
This article examines the ways in which the violent Anabaptist rising at Münster in 1533-5 was reint...
This dissertation explores the circulation of radical social and political ideas in the literature o...
Puritans entered a novel position of power in the early 1640s. Their attempts to ‘combat’ heretics a...
Following the English invasion of Scotland in July 1650, ministers and laymen in the Church of Scotl...
The radical visionaries of the civil war era had several royalist counterparts, today often overlook...