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Laddar... Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution (1965)av Christopher Hill
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This is a revised edition of Christopher Hill's classic and ground-breaking examination of the motivations behind the English Revolution and Civil War, first published in 1965. In addition to the text of the original, Dr Hill provides thirteen new chapters which take account of otherpublications since the first edition, bringing his work up-to-date in a stimulating and enjoyable way.This book poses the problem of how, after centuries of rule by King, lords, and bishops, when the thinking of all was dominated by the established church, English men and women found the courage to revolt against Charles I, abolish bishops, and execute the king in the name of his people. Thefar-reaching effects and the novelty of what was achieved should not be underestimated - the first legalized regicide, rather than an assassination; the formal establishment of some degree of religious toleration; Parliament taking effective control of finance and foreign policy on behalf of gentryand merchants, thus guaranteeing the finance necessary to make England the world's leading naval power; abolition of the Church's prerogative courts (confirming gentry control at a local level); and the abolition of feudal tenures, which made possible first the agricultural and then the industrialrevolution. Christopher Hill examines the intellectual forces which helped to prepare minds for a revolution that was much more than the religious wars and revolts which had gone before, and which became the precedent for the great revolutionary upheavals of the future. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)942.06History and Geography Europe England and Wales England 1603–1714, House of Stuart and Commonwealth periodsKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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300+ tightly reasoned pages, with perhaps 2000 footnotes...
And Hill's conclusion?
p. 299: "So my conclusion is the banal and eternal one, that history is all very mixed up."
Uh, thanks, perfessor.
Fun Facts: Hard to imagine that the very idea that "progress and improvement are possible by the use of human reason" was once a new idea. (p.182, Hill credits it to Bodin, in 1566.)
and:
"We have got so used to regarding originality as a virtue that wins scholarships that we forget the time, not so long ago, when it was regarded as an intellectual offense." (p. 289, Hill cites John Donne (1611) on this point) ( )