Research Catalog

Title

The common freedom of the people : John Lilburne & the English revolution / Michael Braddick.

Author

Braddick, M. J. (Michael J.), 1962-

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xx, 391 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles; 24 cm

Summary

John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through the arm, and nearly lost an eye in a pike accident. In the course of all this, he fought important legal battles for the rights to remain silent, to open trial, and to trial by his peers. He was twice acquitted by juries in very public trials, but nonetheless spent the bulk of his adult life in prison or exile. He is best known, however, as the most prominent of the Levellers, who campaigned for a government based on popular sovereignty two centuries before the advent of mass representative democracies in Europe. Michael Braddick explores the extraordinary life of 'Freeborn John': how his experience of political activism sharpened and clarified his ideas, leading him to articulate bracingly radical views; and the changes in English society that made such a career possible. Without land, established profession, or public office, successive governments found him sufficiently alarming to be worth imprisoning, sending into exile, and putting on trial for his life. Above all, we can explore the life not just of John Lilburne, but of revolutionary England itself - and of ideas fundamental to the radical, democratic, libertarian, and constitutional traditions, both in Britain and the USA.

Alternative Title

John Lilburne & the English revolution

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Biography
• Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649)
• Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657
• Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649
• Biographies
• Great Britain > History > Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
• Levellers > Biography
• 1642-1660
• History

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Biography.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-1479

ISBN

• 9780198803232
• 0198803230
• 9780192524775 (canceled/invalid)
• 0192524771 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1012525958

Author

Braddick, M. J. (Michael J.), 1962- author.

Title

The common freedom of the people : John Lilburne & the English revolution / Michael Braddick.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1642-1660

Other Form:

Electronic version: Braddick, M. J. (Michael J.), 1962- Common freedom of the people. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780192524775 (OCoLC)1046633949

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1479