Comments | sylvar: Seeking background information on 1600s English history

sylvar

Seeking background information on 1600s English history

Feb 07, 2006 11:37

During the drive home from a doctor's appointment (about which I'll write more later), I listened to the podcast of a BBC In Our Time show about 17th-century print culture in England and how the rise of literacy and printed material affected the (English) Civil War. segnbora will probably enjoy listening to the show, which is available here in mp3 format ( Read more... )

history, england, books

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elaine_brennan February 7 2006, 18:16:41 UTC

how about several book titles?

For a general introduction, I've always liked Christoper Hill:

The World Turned Upside Down or Puritanism and Revolution : Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century, both by Christopher Hill.

English Troubles in a European Context, by Jonathan Scott.

Heading into a more esoteric realm, you might try
Joyce Appleby's Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England (1978) which tries to look at the larger intellectual context for a number of notions that worked themselves out in economic & political terms.

sylvar February 7 2006, 19:42:39 UTC

Ooo. Thank you very much! I've requested The World Turned Upside Down from my public library system, and I see that England's Troubles (sic) is available at the university library. I might get into Appleby later on.

segnbora February 7 2006, 21:22:27 UTC

For those questions of yours that can be answered fairly quickly ( ... )

To pick up where Segnbora left off... creases February 7 2006, 22:17:11 UTC

Hacked up the order a bit ( ... )

Re: To pick up where Segnbora left off... sylvar February 8 2006, 03:24:49 UTC

Oh, you're Cletus. Hiya!

And... wow! Thanks! Do you have any books to recommend? (Maybe you should write one, if you haven't already!)

creases February 8 2006, 03:34:39 UTC

I am! Hiya!

No, I don't have any particular books. What I know comes from long-forgotten snippets of history classes, from picking up incidental stuff from prefaces and footnotes of contemporary stuff (I have a professional interest in 17th century political philosophy), from combing Wikipedia and from picking [Noung]'s brain.

Re: To pick up where Segnbora left off... sylvar February 8 2006, 03:32:12 UTC

PS: I am, in retrospect, appalled that I didn't realize why Baruch Spinoza was Benedictus de Spinoza. I bloody knew the English meaning of those words. I say "baruch" at least once a year. (But usually not much more often...)

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