- Title
- Mainline Calvinists, pamphlets and democracy in revolutionary Britain 1641-1646
- Creator
- Maddox, Graham; Moore, Tod
- Relation
- Not So Strange Bedfellows p. 26-44
- Relation
- The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the 21st Century
- Relation
- http://www.cambridgescholars.com/not-so-strange-bedfellows-14
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The years 1641 to 1646 saw "a transformation of the political nation, the beginning of mass politics, and a rapid and revolutionary expansion of what is sometimes called the "public sphere". Elections, sermons, processions, petitions, demonstrations, pamphlets and politicized conversations, brought "men that do not rule" (and sometimes women too) into active engagement with public affairs (Cressy 2003: 68; also sec Moe 2010, 693). In particular, books and pamphlets provided a "commodious outlet" for the leading intellectuals of the revolutions themselves (Raymond 2003, 224). These printed sources reveal a surprising amount of interest in the concept of democracy, one example being the following excerpt from John Cotton of Massachusetts, who in 1645 defended the regime of the "godly" against comparison with the pagan Greeks: "A democraticall government might do well in Athens, a city fruitfull of pregnant wits, but will soone degenerate to an Anarchie (a popular tumult) amongst rude common people."
- Subject
- Calvinists; Britain; democracy; Pamphlets
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341306
- Identifier
- uon:28710
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781443848008
- Language
- eng
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