The Putney debates of 1647 : the army, the Levellers, and the English state
In autumn 1647, soldiers and officers of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army held discussions near London on the constitution and future of England. In this book, three generations of scholars examine the debates in their multiple contexts
Print Book, English, 2001
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2001
Kongress Washington (DC) 1997
xii, 297 pages ; 24 cm
9780521650151, 0521650151
45388476
1. Introduction Michael Mendle; Part I. The Putney Debates: The Artefact: 2. The survival of the manuscript Lesley Le Claire; 3. Reading and writing the text of the Putney debates Frances Henderson; Part II. The Putney Debates and Their Contexts: 4. The debates from the perspective of the army Austin Woolrych; 5. The army, the state and the soldier in the English civil war Barbara Donagan; 6. The case of the armie truly re-stated John Morrill and Philip Baker; 7. Putney's pronouns: identity and indemnity in the great debate Michael Mendle; 8. The agreements of the people and their political context, 1647–1649 Ian Gentles; 9. From Reading to Whitehall: Henry Ireton's journey Barbara Taft; Part III. Levellers and 'Levellerism' in History and Historiography: 10. 'The poorest she': women and citizenship in early modern England Patricia Crawford; 11. The Leveller legacy: from the Restoration to the Exclusion crisis Tim Harris; 12. Puritanism, liberty and the Putney debates William Lamont; 13. The Levellers in history and memory, c. 1660–1960 Blair Worden; 14. The true Levellers' standard revisited: an afterword J. G. A. Pocock.
Revised papers from a conference held in 1997 at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C
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