Book description
This anthology has been designed for use by Open University students taking an interdisciplinary course on the changing culture of seventeenth-century England, but it will also appeal to a wider readership interested in this period. The extracts range from private diaries and letters to literary works and formal constitutional programmes. The volume affords a direct insight into one of the most dramatic periods of English history, through the words of the men who witnessed and participated in events.
There are extensive selections from the vast propagandist pamphlet literature of the 1640s and 1650s when the collapse of censorship allowed comparatively ordinary people to express their views in print.
