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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH RADICALISM VARIETIES OF SEVENTEENTH- AND EARLY © Copyrighted Material IN CONTEXT www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate. com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com © Copyrighted Material © Copyrighted Material Dedicated to our families and those who have taught us www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate. com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com © Copyrighted Material Early EVarietiesighteenth-Century of Seventeenth- and Radicalism in Context © Copyrighted Material GoldsmithsARIEL College, HESSAYON UK Edited by English GoldsmithsDA College, UK VID FINNEGAN and www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate. com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com © Copyrighted Material © Ariel Hessayon, David Finnegan and All rights reserved. system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Ariel Hessayon and David Finnegan have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Publishedby Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road Farnham Burlington No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval Surrey, GU9 7PT England USA www.ashgate.com © Copyrighted Material British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Varieties of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English radicalism in context. 1. Radicalism—England—History—17th century. The Contributors 2011 2. Radicalism—England—History—18th century. I. Hessayon, 320.5’3–dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Varieties of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century [edited by] p. cm. Includes index. Ariel. II. Finnegan, David. ISBN 978-0-7546-6905-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-7546-9601-8 (ebook) 1. Radicalism—Great Britain—History—17th century. 2. Radicalism—Great Britain— History—18th century. 3. Radicalism—Religious aspects. I. Hessayon, David. Ariel Hessayon and David Finnegan. HN400.R3V37 2010 303.48’4—dc22 101 Cherry Street ISBN 9780754669050 (hbk) VT ISBN 9780754696018 (ebk) 05401-4405 www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate. com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com English radicalism in context / 2010043380 © Copyrighted Material Ariel. II. Finnegan, Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Reappraising Early Modern Radicals and Radicalisms 1 The Beauty of Holiness and the Poetics of Ariel Hessayon and David Finnegan © Copyrighted Material 2 Radicalism Relocated:Richard R oyalistCrashaw, Politics John Sandaltmarsh Pamphleteering and the Language of Religious Radicalism in the 1640s Contents Nicholas McDowell 3 News from the New Jerusalem: Giles Calvert and the Radical of the Late 1640s Jason Peacey 4 Gerrard Winstanley, Radical Reformer Experience Mario Caricchio 5 The Poetics of Biblical Prophecy: Ariel Hessayon 6 Empire-Building: Converted Noam Flinker 7 Seventeenth-Century Italy and English Radical Movements Jim Smyth 8 Midrash Stefano Villani Antinomianism: www.ashgate.com ww Aw.ashgate.co m www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate Sarah Hutton Radical Review of the Cambridge Platonists .com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com The English Republic, Scotland and Ireland vii xiii xi Abiezer Coppe’s Late 1 31 © Copyrighted Material 51 69 87 113 129 145 161 vi 9 Radical Revelation? 10 Mapping Friendship and Seventeenth-Century EVarietiesngland of 17th- and Early 18th-Century English Radicalism Warren Johnston 11 Joseph Boyse to Ralph Sandra Hynes 12 The Books and Times of Anthony Collins (1676–1729), Free-thinker, Radical Reader and Independent Whig Giovanni Tarantino © Copyrighted Material Apocalyptic Ideas in Late Index William Hone (1780–1842), Print-Culture, and the Nature of Radicalism Jason McElligott Thoresby,Dissent: 1680–1710 The Letters from www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com ww w.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate .com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate183.com 205 221 241 261 © Copyrighted Material Mario Caricchio, now an independent scholar, was a researcher at the University of Bologna and taught early modern history at the SSIS-T of Giles Calvert Religione, politica e commercio di libri nella rivoluzione inglese. Gli autori di movimenti radicali della rivoluzione inglese Caricchio has also written a number of essays on the English Revolution. David Finnegan is currently teaching at Goldsmiths, University of LondonN otes on Contributors and at Rugby school. He has published several essays on Irish Catholics and Catholicism in the early modern period and is currently completing a monograph © Copyrighted Material based on his doctoral dissertation entitled (Genoa: Name, 2003) and 1534–1653 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming). He has also co-edited a recently completed essay collection, (Londonderry: Guildhall Press, 2010). Noam Flinker is and Literature at the University of Haifa. He is the author of The Song of Songs in English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000). Professor Flinker’s scholarly interests range from the Bible as literature through to John Donne, John Milton and seventeenth-century anticipations of Ariel Hessayon is lecturer in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of ‘Gold Tried in the Fire’. The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany and the English Revolution (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), as well as the co- editor, with in Early Modern England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). His current research is Associate Professor in the Department of English Popolo e rivoluzione? La storiografia e i primarily focussed on the reception of the writings of the Boehme, modern England. (Milan: Guerini e associati, 2005). Dr Sarah Hutton currently holds a chair at Nicholas Keene, of a collection of essays on Scripture and Scholarship of research is seventeenth-century intellectual history, with a special interest in the Cambridge Platonists and women philosophers. Gerrard Winstanley and the The Flight of the Earls Conway. A Woman Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004); co-edited oscana. He is the author with Paul (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008); The Politics of Irish Catholicism, and his Milieu www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com ww w.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com www.ashgate.com Schuurman, (Florence: Olschki, 2007); and, co-edited with Douglas Hedley, – Imeacht na nIarlaí Studies on Locke: Sources, Contemporaries and Legacy Diggers, and Jews and crypto-Jews in early Benjamin Furly (1646–1714), a Quaker Merchant Aberystwyth University. Her main area Ulysses. © Copyrighted Material Language Recent publications include, German mystic Jacob Anne viii Platonism at the Origins of Modernity of the series International Sandra Hynes works at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the and theology in Restoration Quakerism in BritainVarieties and Ireland, of 17th- and and she Early has 18th-Century since English Radicalism published severalUniversity articles of on Quakers in Ireland. Dr Hynes’s current research centres on the relationship between theology and disability from Warren Johnston Canada. modern England. He is the author of Revelation Restored: The Apocalypse in Later Seventeenth-Century England (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011) and is currently working on a project examining sermon literature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Aberdeen. His research focuses on religious, political, and social thought in early © Copyrighted Material Archives of the History of Ideas. Nicholas McDowell is He is the author of The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630–1660 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003) and in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit (Oxford: Oxford UP, is an 2008). He is the editor, with Nigel Smith, of Her doctoral dissertation was a study of discipline (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009; paperback edn, 2011), which won the Irene Samuel (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008). She is Director Memorial prose is forthcoming in Assistant Professor at Vernacular Regicide and Republican Tracts. Jason McElligott works at the Trinity Long Room Hub, the arts and humanities research institute at Chief of Enemies (Dundalk: Dundalgan,A 1994), in Revolutionary England (Woodbridge: Boydellward Press, of the 2007),Milton andSociety of Associate Professor of English at the University of Exeter. and the Press, 1640–1660 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009). He has also edited (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), and co-edited two collections with David L. Smith, Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007) and Manchester UP, 2010). He Fear,and Geoff Exclusion Kemp and were Revolution: the general Roger editors Morrice of the and four- Britain in the 1680s volume sourcebook The Oxford Complete Works of John Milton. Volume VI: Algoma University in Ontario, Chatto,