Legal Agency as Literature in the English Revolution

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Smith
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Common People ◽  
New Model ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
The Common ◽  
Legal Understanding

The literary canon of the mid-seventeenth century has always included works of argument in various spheres—religious, political, philosophical, and juridical—that make up the polemic of the civil wars and the experiment with non-monarchical government that followed. This very large body of usually printed literature was often in the form of a legal plea. One area in which law was reconceived in the name of the common people and exemplified in public and courtroom protest, on the printed page and in the internal politics of the New Model Army, was the Leveller movement, most famously exemplified in the career and expression of John Lilburne. The broader impact of Leveller revisions to legal understanding is exemplified in the activities of the 1650s popular republican and Restoration law publisher John Streater.

The Formulation of the Declaration of Rights

1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Frankle
Keyword(s):  
Common People ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Revolution

After a period of comparative neglect, historians are re-examining the English Revolution of 1688 with revived interest and revised interpretation. In the past few decades numerous works have carefully re-investigated and often reinterpreted the roles played by such disparate groups as the Whigs, die nobility, the common people, and die urban mob, as well as by such leading individuals as die Earl of Sunderland, James II, and William of Orange. They have broadened our perspective of the Revolution by placing it in die wider context of European affairs and have persuasively demonstrated that die replacement of James II by William and Mary was justified most frequently and effectively not by John Locke's Two Treatises of Government, which was indeed composed prior to 1688, but by mat old relic from James I's reign, divine right of kings.

George Fox, Millenarian

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Larry Ingle
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Small Step ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
Charles I ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Divine Intervention ◽  
George Fox ◽  
Widespread Interest

“Friends, take heed of setting up that which God will throw down, lest you be found fighters against God.”The nearly two decades comprising the period of the English Revolution were marked by a widespread interest in the timely appearance of the millennium, the thousand year period of Christ's promised earthly reign. From scholarly biblical studies of Daniel and Revelation to omens such as total eclipses of the sun and rumors of a Nottingham girl returning from the dead to warn a sinful world of approaching destruction, people in revolutionary England were bombarded with “evidence” of divine intervention and the expected arrival of the new kingdom. Parliament's victory in the English civil wars and its execution of Charles I in 1649 dramatically blew away the aura of divinity surrounding the monarchy and promised a new and glorious age. As they read prophecies in Revelation about a New Jerusalem where God would dry all tears and banish death, sorrow, and pain, enthusiasts of the seventeenth century anxiously looked for the Christ who promised, “Behold, I come quickly.” So prevalent were such notions that, as one authority has stressed, popular millenarianism seemed only a small step beyond received orthodoxy.

Separatists and Baptists

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-138
Author(s):  
Michael A.G. Haykin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
The Common ◽  
Separatist Movement ◽  
The Way

This chapter details the emergence of the Baptists, both General and Particular, from the radical wing of Puritanism during the first four decades of the seventeenth century (the General Baptist coming out of the Separatist movement and the Particulars having their matrix in the London congregation now known as the Jacob-Lathrop-Jessey Church). It also outlines the way in which these two streams of Baptist witness eventually grew apart during the turmoil of the mid-seventeenth century, namely the British Civil Wars. The theological positions marked out by each community are thus discussed as well as the common challenges they faced during the years of persecution, 1660–88. The key roles played by leading individuals, such as William Kiffen and Thomas Grantham, are also discussed.

English Literature Abroad

2021 ◽  
pp. 130-157
Author(s):  
Julianne Werlin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
John Milton ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
The Relationship

Beginning in the seventeenth century, English literary authors began to be printed and read in translation in European vernaculars. This chapter traces the relationship between capitalist England’s emergence as an international commercial and colonial power and the circulation of English literature on the Continent. Taking the career of John Milton as a case study, it argues that the English Revolution marked a turning point in England’s political and economic influence, and as a direct result, in the reception of its literature. By the end of the seventeenth century, England’s capitalist development enabled vernacular writers such as Milton, Shakespeare, and Bacon to enter the European literary canon.

Diets, Food Supplies and the African Slave Trade in Early Seventeenth-Century Spanish America

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda A. Newson ◽  
Susie Minchin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Labor Income ◽  
Common People ◽  
African Slave ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Common

Much has been written about the spread of Old World crops and livestock in the Americas. However, very little is known, except in very general terms, about the availability of different foods, diets and nutrition, particularly among the common people, in different regions of Spanish America in the early colonial period. This derives in part from the shortage of evidence, but it also reflects the difficulties of researching these complex issues, where environmental conditions, access to land and labor, income distribution, regulation of food supplies and prices, as well as food traditions, all interact.

scholarly journals A Godly Law? Bulstrode Whitelocke, Puritanism and the Common Law in Seventeenth-Century England

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 273-287
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Rose
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Common Law ◽  
British History ◽  
Apparent Relationship ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Of Moses ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Debates surrounding both the church and the law played an important role in the conflicts that marked seventeenth-century England. Calls for reform of the law in the Civil Wars and Interregnum complicated the apparent relationship between puritanism and the common law, as the first fragmented and the second came under attack in the 1640s and 1650s. This article first analyses the common lawyer Bulstrode Whitelocke's historical and constitutional writings that defended the common law against demands for its reform and argued that its legitimacy derived from its origins in, and resemblances to, the law of Moses. Refraining from the radical application of this model employed by some contemporaries, Whitelocke instead turned to British history to make his case. This article then examines Whitelocke's views of the relationship between common law and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in his own day, showing how, both as a lawyer and as a puritan, he navigated laws demanding religious conformity. Whitelocke's career therefore demonstrates how lawyers could negotiate the fraught relationship between the church and the law in the aftermath of the reconfigurations provoked by the Civil Wars and Restoration.

Between High Culture and Low Culture; and also The Difference Between Popular Culture and Folk Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Kunal Debnath
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Common People ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Low Culture

High culture is a collection of ideologies, beliefs, thoughts, trends, practices and works-- intellectual or creative-- that is intended for refined, cultured and educated elite people. Low culture is the culture of the common people and the mass. Popular culture is something that is always, most importantly, related to everyday average people and their experiences of the world; it is urban, changing and consumeristic in nature. Folk culture is the culture of preindustrial (premarket, precommodity) communities.

Myths about COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 907-912
Author(s):  
Deepika Masurkar ◽  
Priyanka Jaiswal
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Common People ◽  
The World ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Media ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Novel Virus ◽  
The Common ◽  
Health Organization

Recently at the end of 2019, a new disease was found in Wuhan, China. This disease was diagnosed to be caused by a new type of coronavirus and affected almost the whole world. Chinese researchers named this novel virus as 2019-nCov or Wuhan-coronavirus. However, to avoid misunderstanding the World Health Organization noises it as COVID-19 virus when interacting with the media COVID-19 is new globally as well as in India. This has disturbed peoples mind. There are various rumours about the coronavirus in Indian society which causes panic in peoples mind. It is the need of society to know myths and facts about coronavirus to reduce the panic and take the proper precautionary actions for our safety against the coronavirus. Thus this article aims to bust myths and present the facts to the common people. We need to verify myths spreading through social media and keep our self-ready with facts so that we can protect our self in a better way. People must prevent COVID 19 at a personal level. Appropriate action in individual communities and countries can benefit the entire world.

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