1st Edition
Major-General Thomas Harrison Millenarianism, Fifth Monarchism and the English Revolution 1616-1660
By David Farr
Copyright 2014
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I’s death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660; a spectacle witnessed by Samuel Pepys who recorded him ’looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition’. Beginning with this grisly event, this book... Read more
Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1 1659–1660: Harrison’s Capture; Chapter 2 1660: Harrison’s Trial; Chapter 3 1660: Harrison’s Death; Part 2; Chapter 4 1642–1651: Harrison’s War; Chapter 5 1646–1649: Harrison the Regicide; Chapter 6 1646–1660: Harrison the Millenarian; Chapter 7 1649–1653: Harrison the Saint; Chapter 8 1649–1653: Harrison the Parliamentarian; Part 3 III; Chapter 9 1653–1660: Harrison’s Retreat; Chapter 10 1616–1659: Harrison’s Rise – From Obscurity to Lord of the Manor; Chapter 101; Conclusion;
Biography
Dr David Farr is Deputy Head Academic of Norwich School. He is author of full length studies of other Cromwellian military-religious radicals, Henry Ireton and John Lambert, as well as general studies of Britain 1625-1689 and numerous articles on various aspects of the English Revolution in a range of academic journals.
'Farr’s book is an extremely enjoyable read. More importantly it has shone a bright light on a person that deserves far more research. Also he has shown the Fifth Monarchists to be an important part of the English Revolution ... The book deserves a wide audience and would be a comfortable read for a general reader as well as the more academic one. Hopefully it will be placed on university reading lists in the future.' A Trumpet of Sedition '... the first full-length scholarly biography of Harrison ever to appear ... a very welcome contribution to our understanding of the dramatis personae of the English Revolution.' Renaissance Quarterly ’From beginning to end, David Farr has pursued his subject with immense energy and a clear-sighted historical consciousness ... Farr’s political biography is simply a triumph.’ History ’David Farr’s new biography of Thomas Harrison is a brave and sympathetic attempt to re-envisage the Major-General for a fresh generation of students and professional academics.’ Seventeenth Century
