Name: The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries
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Author: Christopher Hill
ISBN: 9781784786694

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The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries

Type

Physical Book

Author

Christopher Hill

Publisher

Verso

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784786694

Synopsis "The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries "

What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of “God’s cause”—a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts of this period concentrate on the court, Christopher Hill focuses on those who mourned the passing of the most radical era in English history. The radical protestant clergy, as well as republican intellectuals and writers generally, had to explain why providence had forsaken the agents of God’s work. In The Experience of Defeat, Christopher Hill explores the writings and lives of the Levellers, the Ranters and the Diggers, as well as the work of George Fox and other important early Quakers. Some of them were pursued by the new regime, forced into hiding or exile; others compelled to recant. In particular Hill examines John Milton’s late work, arguing that it came directly out of a painful reassessment of man and society that impelled him to “justify the ways of God to Man.”

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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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