Gangraena and the struggle for the English revolution
By: Ann Hughes.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; OUP Oxford
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Subjects: Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647.; Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647 -- Influence.; Sects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.; Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Causes.; Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Sources.; Great Britain -- Church history -- 17th century -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: "This is the first comprehensive study of Gangraena, an intemperate anti-sectarian polemic written by a London Presbyterian Thomas Edwards and published in three parts in 1646. These books, which bitterly opposed any moves to religious toleration, were the most notorious and widely debated texts in a Revolution in which print was crucial to political mobilization. They have been equally important to later scholars who have continued the lively debate over the value of Gangraena as a source for the ideas and movements its author condemned.

This study includes a thorough assessment of the usefulness of Edwards's work as a historical source, but goes beyond this to provide a wide-ranging discussion of the importance of Gangraena in its own right as a lively work of propaganda, crucial to Presbyterian campaigning in the mid-1640s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-474) and index.