A. L. Morton – The World of the Ranters, Religious Radicalism in the English Revolution
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A. L. Morton – The World of the Ranters, Religious Radicalism in the English Revolution
[Lawrence & Wishart 1979]
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The Ranters came into prominence after the defeat of the Levellers at Burford in 1649 had put a final end to the most serious political and military challenge to Cromwell from the left. With their direct appeal to the outcast urban poor, coupled with a flagrant and often blasphemous defiance of traditional Christian morality, the Ranter sect provide a striking illustration of the continuing radical political and theological opposition to the Cromwellian Commonwealth. This book contains the first full length study of this, the most radical of all left-wing sects that flourished in the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. It also includes studies of outstanding Leveller leaders — like John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn — as well as the first biographical portrait of the pamphleteer Laurence Clarkson, whose life provides a guide to virtually all the independent and radical sects of the period. Contents
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