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Article: English Civil War Radicalism
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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ENGLISH CIVIL WAR RADICALISM
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR RADICALISM.
Radicalism in the 1640s and 1650s was a fluid and dynamic phenomenon in which religious and secular ideas were often impossible to separate. Individuals frequently transferred their allegiance upon encountering a new and charismatic leader, while others broke away to forge their own individual paths. But from within this flux several more coherent movements emerged, and it is their stories we trace here.
BAPTISTS
The first of these movements to appear was that of the Baptists, a group whose origins can be traced back to a group of Puritan separatists who had fled to the Netherlands in 1608. Under the influence of Dutch ...