The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780198803232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 416 str.

University of Sheffield) Brad Michael (Professor of History

Opis

The dramatic life of 'Freeborn John' Lilburne - revolutionary campaigner for popular sovereignty in seventeenth-century England, and battler for the fundamental political and legal rights we enjoy today.

Recenzje

This is a first rate historical work that transcends its biographical framework and successfully draws readers into the larger political, religious, and intellectual issues of the English Revolution. Gary S. De Krey, Journal of Modern History

O autorze

Michael Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, and has held academic positions and visiting Fellowships in the USA, Australia, France, and Germany. He has published widely on the social, political, and economic history of British and American society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His most recent book is God's Fury, England's Fire (2008).