Name: Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies
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Author: Christopher Hill
ISBN: 9781788736800

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Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies

Type

Physical Book

Author

Christopher Hill

Publisher

Verso

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781788736800

Synopsis "Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies"

A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of 17th century England In 17th Century England, the law was not an instrument of justice - it was an instrument of oppression. The enclosures of common land, loss of many traditional rights and draconian punishments for minor transgressions changed the lives of the peasantry and created a landless class of wage labourers. In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill explores the immense social changes that occurred and the expressions of liberty against the law through the literary culture of the times and the hero-worship of the outlaw. As well as chapters on gypsies and vagabonds, Hill analyses class, religion and the shift away from the importance of the church after the Reformation. Liberty Against the Law is a late classic of Hill's work, and essential reading for anyone interested in the history and politics of the 17th Century.

Christopher Hill

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Christopher Hill (1912-2003) fue un influyente historiador marxista británico, conocido por su profundo estudio de la Revolución Inglesa del siglo XVII y su enfoque en la "historia desde abajo", resaltando los movimientos radicales y utópicos de la época, como los Diggers y Levellers, vinculando su legado con el presente, y fue Rector del Balliol College de Oxford, dejando obras clave como El siglo de la revolución y El mundo trastornado

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