Print and Radicalism in the British Civil Wars

我的研究项目旨在探讨英国内战期间和之后印刷和激进主义之间的关系。它将寻求使用微观历史的方法来揭示个人印刷商和出版商在促进和促进内战时期的激进话语中所发挥的作用，并采用人物传记技术来探索这些人与更广泛的激进社会，宗教和政治网络的联系程度。它还旨在使用排版分析来识别以前匿名的文本来源，并将其置于颠倒的世界背景中。在这样做的时候，这个项目将试图挑战内战时期激进主义的流行概念史学方法;这种方法试图从定义的角度来理解激进主义，离散的群体具有明确的，有凝聚力的想法和议程。然而，通过恢复个人经验的现实，通过更密切地描绘个人与他们的思想之间的复杂关系，我的目标是使修正主义的方法复杂化，修正主义的方法试图将激进的内战环境中不稳定的动态分离成更易解决的，如果有点不合时宜的话，块。这个项目将设法在内战和空白时期的不稳定和不确定的现实背景下恢复个人、思想和信仰的流动性。因此，这项研究将建立在不断增长的后修正主义学术的基础上，这些学术试图将激进主义重新定位到内战时期的中心，并重新定位理解它的概念基础。例如，大卫科莫的《被精神吹走》不仅分析了南北战争前伦敦激进宗教情绪的程度和影响，但试图从“协会网络”的角度而不是从稳定的团体或政治实体的角度来理解宗教地下组织。乔尔·哈尔科姆的作品旨在突出激进宗教教会的内部个人机制，而大卫·布雷迪克最近的作品则呼吁对激进主义蓬勃发展的背景及其影响程度进行更深入的分析。这个项目的源代码库将主要是文本，利用两个巨大的集合的沃森Tracts和威廉克拉克收集在伍斯特学院，牛津大学举行。虽然这两个集合是非常有名的，他们包含的许多小册子是知之甚少，往往忽视或边缘化的简单化宣传。然而，本项目将寻求更彻底地分析这些来源的内部机制，它们是如何产生的，由谁产生，为谁而产生，以及为了什么目的。微观历史的方法将再次成为理解这些文本的鲜为人知的印刷商和作家以及他们与内战英国更广泛的政治和宗教派别联系的方式的关键。这样的分析可以提供一个新的视角，对内战的史学和印刷和激进主义在其中的位置。

My research project aims to explore the relationship between print and radicalism during and after the British civil wars. It will seek to use a microhistorical approach to uncover the role played by individual printers and publishers in facilitating and fostering the radical discourse of the civil war period, and prosopographical techniques to explore the extent to which these individuals were connected to wider radical social, religious and political networks. It will also aim to use typographical analysis to both identify previously anonymous textual sources and contextualise them within the context of a world being turned upside down. In so doing, this project will seek to challenge the prevailing conceptual historiographical approach to radicalism in the civil war period; an approach which has sought to understand radicalism in terms of defined, discrete groups with clear, cohesive ideas and agendas. By recovering the realities of individual experience, however, and by more closely delineating the complex relationship between individuals and their ideas, I aim to complicate the Revisionist approach which has sought to separate the unstable dynamic of the radical civil war milieu into more soluble, if somewhat anachronistic, chunks. This project will seek to recover the fluidity of individuals, ideas and allegiances within the context of the precarious and uncertain reality of the civil war and interregnum period. This research will thus build on a growing body of post-revisionist scholarship which has sought to reorientate radicalism back towards the centre of the civil war period and reposition the conceptual basis for understanding it. David Como's Blown By the Spirit, for example, not only analysed the extent and impact of radical religious sentiment in antebellum London, but sought to understanding the religious underground in terms of "webs of association" rather than stable groups or political entities. Joel Halcomb's work has aimed to bring to the fore the internal personal mechanics of radical religious churches, whilst David Braddick's recent works have called for a much deeper analysis of the contexts in which radicalism flourished and the extent of its impact. The source base for this project will primarily be textual, utilising the two vast collections of the Thomason Tracts and the William Clarke collection held at Worcester College, Oxford. Although these two collections are very well known, many of the pamphlets they contain are poorly understood, often disregarded or marginalised as simplistic propaganda. This project, however, will seek to more thoroughly analyse the internal mechanics of these sources, the ways they were produced, by whom, for whom, and to what end. A microhistorical approach will again be key in understanding the little-known printers and writers who produced these texts and the ways in which they were connected to broader political and religious factions in the civil war Britain. Such an analysis can offer a fresh perspective upon the historiography of the civil wars and the place of print and radicalism within it.