'The power of property was brought into creation by the sword', so wrote Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676) - Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy. Despite being one of the great English radicals, Winstanley remains unmentioned in today's list...
This essay explores the Diggers' - and in particular Winstanley's - connections with Cobham, both before and after the digging on the Little Heath. In a postscript John Gurney challenges the idea, almost universally held so far by Winstanley scholars, that the Digger leader chose to come to...
单词Winstanley, Gerrard 释义Winstanley, Gerrardn. 温斯坦利(?1609-1660, 英国激进分子, “掘土派”(the Diggers)领导人(1649-1650), 著有小册子《论政纲之自由原则》(The Law of Freedom in a Platform, 1652)等)
The Diggers (1649) Digger groups also took over land in Kent (Cox Hill), Buckinghamshire (Iver) and Northamptonshire (Wellingborough). A. L. Morton has argued that Winstanley and his followers used the argument that William the Conqueror had "turned the English out of their birthrights; and ...
Alsop, ‘Gerrard Winstanley: What do we Know of his Life?’, in Andrew Bradstock (ed.), Winstanley and the Diggers, 1649–1999 (2000), pp. 19–36; Brailsford, Levellers and the English Revolution , pp. 10–11; Brian Manning, review of the 1967 reprint of Wolfe, Leveller Manifestoes ...
The article discusses the radical left-wing activists' historiographical attitudes, from the 1940s through the 1990s, towards the 17th century Diggers and the Levellers movement and the English radical Gerrard Winstanley. An overview of 20th century Marxist and communist historiography on the Diggers ...
Cf. J. D. Alsop, "A High Road to Radicalism? Gerrard Winstanley's Youth," Seventeenth Century 9 (1994): 13-14, 20; Alsop, "Winstanley: What Do We Know of His Life?," in Winstanley and the Diggers, 21-22, 24-25, 28; N. Smith, "Gerrard Winstanley and the Literature of ...
Gerrard WinstanleyDiggersEnglish RevolutionlocalityNorman YokeSt George's HillSurreyThis paper explores the development of Winstanley's ideas in terms of the context of place. Although the influence on Winstanley of his early experiences in Wigan and London is difficult to determine, in Surrey we can...
It explores the extent to which Winstanley was using an historical Israelite identity as a metaphor for the situation and aspirations of the Diggers. It also questions whether the Diggers' interest in Jewishness was purely historical, and examines the extent to which the movement engaged with ...
DiggerswomenThis essay suggests that the revolutionary message of Gerrard Winstanley contains at its heart a confrontation with and rejection of traditional patriarchalism, which he calls "masculine powers" or "kingly rule." While some commentators have characterized as essentially "patriarchal" his ...