Thesis
The fifth monarchy men
- Alternative title:
- an analysis of their origins, activities, ideas and composition
- Abstract:
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Few predictions can have been less accurate than the claim by the anonymous author of London's Glory (1661) that the Fifth Monarchists would prove a 'never to be forgotten sect'. After brief literary glory as the subjects of Abraham Cowley's play Cutter of Coleman Street (1663), they languished in obscurity until revivified by Sir Walter Scott in 1822 in hia novel Peveril of the Peak. Since they have no modern descendants, the Fifth Monarchists have not received...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1970
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602326261
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602326261
- Deposit date:
- 2013-10-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Capp, Bernard
- Copyright date:
- 1970
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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