About this title: Flourishing briefly in the aftermath of the English Revolution (1649-1650), the Ranters have been seen as the ultimate counter-cultural group or movement of seventeenth-century England. Their apparent rejection of sin, hell and all moral constraints, authorities and limitations imposed from above has drawn considerable attention to them as illustrative of an irreligious popular culture and the determination of the people to have a revolution of their own making. Acting out a plebeian permissiveness in denial of the Protestant ethic at the moment of its achievement of dominance, they have ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780521262439ISBN:0521262437
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Used hardback in very good condition in dust jacket. The object of this book is to examine the historiographical rise of the Ranters and to set it against the documentary record which the past has bequeathed to us. Explaining who the Ranters were, what historians have said about them and how they distinguished and identified themselves. Chapters on the historians and the Ranters, Who were the Ranters? . examining the Ranter core and sensation and more. 208 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780521262439ISBN:0521262437
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard back in good+ condition. Light marking and rubbing to covers. Ex-library, with a few stamps and labels internally, otherwise clean internally, binding is very good. 208 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780521894197ISBN:0521894190
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Binding: orig. wrappers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: (1986)
Description: Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, xiv, 208 pp., PAPERBACK. Contents: The historians and the Ranters; Who were the Ranters? ; Examining the Ranter core; The Ranter sensation; Explaining the Ranter myth; Explaining the historians; Appendix. ["Flourishing briefly in the aftermath of the English Revolution (1649-1650), the Ranters have been seen as the ultimate counter-cultural group or movement of seventeenth-century England. Their apparent rejection of sin, hell & all moral constraints, authorities & ... read more
Description: New. In this book, the author argues that there was no Ranter group or movement: that the Ranters did not exist. Rather, a myth of the Ranters was projected in a press sensation and was sustained by heresiographers and sectarian leaders. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780521894197ISBN:0521894190
Description: New. Flourishing briefly in the aftermath of the English Revolution (1649? ? ? 1650), the Ranters have been seen as the ultimate counter-cultural group or movement of seventeenth-century England. Their apparent rejection of sin, hell and all moral constraint... read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521894197ISBN:0521894190
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780521262439ISBN:0521262437
Description: Hardcover, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours, email us with any questions., 500grams, ISBN: 0521262437. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521894197ISBN:0521894190
Description: New. We are no longer able to guarantee delivery by Christmas. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. Flourishing briefly in the aftermath of the English Revolution (1649? ? ? 1650), the Ranters have been seen as the ultimate counter-cultural group or movement of seventeenth-century England. Their apparent rejection of sin, hell and all moral constraints, authorities and limitations imposed from above ... read more
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