Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution
Subtitle: Revisited
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780199246472
First sentence: When you have considered that...the vicissitudes of things ordained by Providence require a general predisposition if men's hearts to co-operate with fate toward the changes appointed to succeed in the fullness of their time, you will think it less strange that Britain, which was but yesterday the theatre of war and desolation, should today be the school of arts and court of all the Muses....It hath been the reformation [of the states of learning] that drew on the change; not the desire of change which pretendeth the reformation.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : The original text.; title: Introduction; title: London science and medicine; title: Francis Bacon and the Parliamentarians; title: Ralegh : science, history, and politics; title: Sir Edward Coke : myth-maker; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix : A note on the universities; title: Part 2 : The new chapters for the revised edition.; title: Introduction : These mighty things God hath wrought; title: Religion, politics, and economics; title: Bacon, Ralegh, Coke; title: William Tyndale and English history; title: Feudal tenures; title: The many-headed monster; title: A three-sided revolution; title: Secularization and other influences; title: Unfinished business; title: Scottish political thought and James VI and I; title: The Norman yoke; title: Venetian observers; title: Literature and revolution; title: Postscript