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Studies the years 1649 to 1653, from regicide to the establishment of the Cromwellian Commonwealth, during which time English writers took stock of a disordered England stripped of the traditional ideas of political, moral, and social order and considered the possibilities for a politically and religiously reordered state.

(Paperback)

This book identifies where modern Jeremiahs place the sources of national decline and their purposed solutions and its analysis also reveals the central problem faced by this form of writing: the need to balance condemnation of certain practices within the democratic polity wi...