Explaining the English Revolution
Subtitle: Hobbes and his contemporaries
By: Mark Stephen Jendrysik.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Contemporaries.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Historiography.; Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Causes.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Description: As we search for greater understanding of the origins of liberalism, religious toleration, and modern democratic thought, Mark Jendrysik's timely work examines the political and religious ideals that buttressed the first 'modern' revolution. Explaining the English Revolution studies the years 1649 to 1653, from regicide to the establishment of the Cromwellian Commonwealth, during which time English writers "took stock" of a disordered England stripped of the traditional ideas of political, moral, and social order and considered the possibilities for a politically and religiously reordered state. Jendrysik provides--through a rich comparative analysis of the work of Thomas Hobbes and his contemporaries Filmer, Winstanley, Cromwell, and Milton--a new understanding of the Civil War-era intelligentsia's assessment of the crisis in the body politic and their varied prescriptions and plans for a new post-revolutionary England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-177) and index.