Title: Gangraena and the struggle for the English revolution
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Sources, History, Sects, Church history, Influence, Causes, Histoire, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Presbyterianer, Gangraena (Edwards, Thomas), War, Great britain, history, civil war, 1642-1649
Places: Great Britain
People: Thomas Edwards (1599-1647)
Time periods: Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660, 17th century
LC classification: DA405 .H84 2004