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Article: English Radicalism 1550-1850.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- March 22, 2008
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English Radicalism 1550-1850, edited by Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. viii, 381 pp. $120.00 US (cloth).
In recent years, historians of early modern England have taken a fresh look at concepts and labels formerly deployed without much consideration of context or subtleties of meanings. Among the terms receiving renewed scrutiny are "atheist," "Puritan," "deist," along with their respective "isms," and indeed "orthodoxy" itself. Such words are now seen as carrying inherent nuances, not always preserved by historians, and that original usage was more complicated than that conveyed in the scholarly literature. ...