The complete works of Gerrard Winstanley /

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Author / Creator:Winstanley, Gerrard, 1609-
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:2 v. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8002666
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Other authors / contributors:Corns, Thomas N.
Hughes, Ann, 1951-
Loewenstein, David.
ISBN:9780199576067 (set)
0199576068 (set)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This fully annotated edition establishes Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76) as a leading English prose writer and the foremost radical thinker of 17th-century England. It makes a major contribution to scholarship on English Civil War politics, religion, and literary culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Vol. 1. Biographical introduction
  • The Diggers
  • Winstanley's political and social thought
  • Winstanley's religion
  • Winstanley and the Bible
  • Literary achievement
  • Textual introduction
  • The works. The breaking of the day of God ; The mysterie of God, concerning the whole creation, mankinde ; The saints paradice : or, The fathers teaching the only satisfaction to waiting souls ; Truth lifting up his head above scandals ; The new law of righteousness.
  • Vol. 2. A declaration to the powers of England (the true Levellers standard advanced)
  • A declaration from the poor oppressed people of England
  • A letter to the Lord Fairfax, and his Councell of War
  • A declaration of the bloudie and unchristian acting of William Star and John Taylor
  • An appeal to the House of Commons
  • A watch-word to the City of London, and the armie
  • A new-yeers gift for the parliament and armie
  • Englands spirit unfoulded : or an incouragement to take the engagement
  • Fire in the bush
  • A vindication of those, whose endeavors is only to make the Earth a common treasury, called Diggers
  • An appeale to all Englishmen
  • An humble request to the ministers of both universities, and to all lawyers in every inns-a-court
  • The law of freedom in a platform : or, true magistracy restored
  • Manuscripts associated with Winstanley. Winstanley and the committee for advance of money ; Manuscript letters, December 1649 ; Letter to Lady Eleanor Douglas
  • Writings by Winstanley appearing in other publications. A letter taken at Wellingborough ; Winstanley's "relation", in John Fielder, The humble petition and appeal of John Fiedler.