This is a revised edition of Christopher Hill's classic and groundbreaking examination of the motivations behind the English Revolution, first published in 1965. In addition to the text of the original, Dr Hill provides thirteen new chapters which take account of other publications since the first edition, bringing his work up-to-date in a stimulating and enjoyable way.
This is a revised edition of Christopher Hill's classic and groundbreaking examination of the motivations behind the English Revolution, first publish...
In this book Christopher Hill explores the causes and consequences of the English Revolution, the years from 1640-1660 when the triumph of Protestantism encouraged a questioning of authority in English political, economic, social, religious, and intellectual life.
In this book Christopher Hill explores the causes and consequences of the English Revolution, the years from 1640-1660 when the triumph of Protestanti...
This illuminating collection of essays assesses the 17th century, interpreting what used to be called "The Puritan Revolution," the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relations between these ideas and the political events of the day.
This illuminating collection of essays assesses the 17th century, interpreting what used to be called "The Puritan Revolution," the ideas which helped...
The Century of Revolution tries to penetrate below the familiar events to grasp when happened--to ordinary English men and women as well as to kings and queens or abstractions like "society" and "the state." In this new edition, Dr. Hill includes the most important conclusions of recent research and has added postscripts drawing attention to especially significant books.
The Century of Revolution tries to penetrate below the familiar events to grasp when happened--to ordinary English men and women as well as t...
A collection of essays that assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relation between these ideas and the political and economic events of the day.
A collection of essays that assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to ...
There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts--as when one says that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Christopher Hill presents a theory of the content of such notions. That theory is largely deflationary in spirit. It represents a broad range of semantic notions free from substantive metaphysical and empirical presuppositions. He also explains the relationship of mirroring or semantic correspondence linking thoughts to reality.
There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts--as when one says that th...
In Some Intellectual Consequences of the English Revolution, Christopher Hill takes up themes that have emerged from a lifetime s investigation into the causes of the English Revolution. However, Hill does more than analyze the origins of the Revolution. He examines the ways the seeds of change sown during the revolution, grew into transformative politics in the period following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Hill argues that the intellectual heritage of the English Revolution was mixed. While he acknowledges its achievements, he also depicts some of its failings....
In Some Intellectual Consequences of the English Revolution, Christopher Hill takes up themes that have emerged from a lifetime s investigat...
