Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution

by Ann L. Hughes

This meticulously researched and wide-ranging book is the first comprehensive study of Thomas Edwards's Gangraena, probably the most important printed work of the English revolution. It provides a vivid account of the printed polemic of the revolution and its place in the religious and political mobilisation of the mid-1640s. Hughes's book is a contribution to the history of Presbyterianism, of London, of parliamentarian fragmentation, and of reading...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199251924
• ISBN13: 9780199251926
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"