Reviving the Radicals: Clement Writer and the Historiography of the English Revolution
Reviving the Radicals: Clement Writer and the Historiography of the English Revolution
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复兴激进派：克莱门特作家和英国革命的史学
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10.1080/01440357.2014.994736
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2014
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J. Peacey
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J. Peacey
本文试图恢复内战激进主义作为学术研究的合适主题，在“修正主义”回应克里斯托弗·希尔（Christopher Hill）的工作之后，该工作挑战了专注于“边缘”人物的有效性，以及革命几十年的各个方面仅仅是“现象”。它是通过把注意力吸引到一个特别的人——克莱门特·Writer——他在希尔的作品中发挥了重要作用，尽管它是通过强调他的思想之外的东西，甚至是他作为一个卑微的、没有受过教育的服装商的地位来实现的。因此，我关注的重点不是作家的宗教激进主义，而是他的参与实践，以及他将印刷作为一种战术手段的挪用；政治过程的经历在他的激进化中所起的作用；这些证据可以被称为他的“政治想象”，或者他对政治体系的不完全理论化的理解，它的缺点和可能性。
This article seeks to recover civil war radicalism as a fit subject for scholarly enquiry, in the wake of “revisionist” responses to the work of Christopher Hill that challenged the validity of concentrating upon “marginal” figures, and upon aspects of the revolutionary decades that were merely “epiphenomenal.” It does so by drawing attention to one particular individual – Clement Writer – who played a significant part in Hill's work, although it does so by highlighting something other than his ideas, or even his status as a humble and uneducated clothier. My focus, therefore, is less upon Writer's religious radicalism than upon his participatory practices, and his appropriation of print as a tactical device; upon the part that experience of political processes played in his radicalization; and upon evidence of what might be described as his “political imaginary,” or his less-than-fully-theorized understanding of the political system, its faults and its possibilities.