Spectres Of John Ball

Author : James G. Crossley
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1800501374

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Spectres of John Ball by James G. Crossley Pdf

For centuries, the priest John Ball was one of the most infamous or famous figures in the history of English rebels, best known for his saying 'When Adam delved and Eve Span, Who was then the gentleman'. But over the past hundred years his memory has faded dramatically. Along with Wat Tyler, Ball was one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, a historically remarkable event in that leading figures of the realm were beheaded by the rebels. For a few days in June 1381, the rebels dominated London but soon met their demise, with Ball executed. Ball provided the theological justification for the uprising which he saw in apocalyptic terms. After the revolt, he was soon vilified and received an overwhelmingly hostile press for 400 years as an archetypal enemy of the state and a religious zealot. His reputation was rescued from the end of the eighteenth century onward and for over one hundred years he rivalled Robin Hood and Wat Tyler as a great English folk (and even abolitionist) hero. But his 640-year reception involves much more, of course, and is tied up with the story of what England is or could be.Overall, the book explains how we get from an apocalyptic priest who promoted a theocracy favouring the lower orders and the decapitation of the leading church and secular authorities to someone who promoted democracy and vague notions about love and tolerance. The book also explains why he has gone out of fashion and whether he can make another comeback.

Author : David Eisler, Jenny Stümer, Michael Dunn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110787078

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Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds by David Eisler, Jenny Stümer, Michael Dunn Pdf

Author : Warren S. Goldstein,Jean-Pierre Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000583342

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Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements by Warren S. Goldstein,Jean-Pierre Reed Pdf

Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive factor in economic, social, and political conflict. The book explores how and under what conditions religion functions as a progressive and/or reactionary force that compels people to challenge or protect social orders. The authors focus on the role that religion has played in peasant, slave, and plebeian rebellions; revolutions, including the Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Iranian; and modern social movements. In addition to these case studies, the book also contains theoretical chapters that explore the relationship religious thought has with the politics of liberation and oppression. It examines the institutional, organizational, ritualistic, discursive, ideological, and/or framing mechanisms that give religion its oppressive and liberating structures. Many scholars of religion continue very conventional modes of thinking, ignoring how religion has been—and continues to be—both a hegemonic and counterhegemonic force in conflict. This book looks at both sides of the equation. This international and interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of politics of religion, sociology of religion, religious studies, gender studies, and history.

Author : James Crossley,Robert J. Myles
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781803410838

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Jesus by James Crossley,Robert J. Myles Pdf

'Precise, clear, accessible, and important. I can think of no better introduction to the historical Jesus for the general reader, no clearer statement on the legacy of the Jesus movement in the sweep of subsequent history, or a more worthy challenge to contemporary scholarship on Jesus and the rise of Christianity.' Neil Elliott, author of Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle What made the Jesus movement tick? By situating the life of Jesus of Nazareth in the turbulent troubles of first-century Palestine, Crossley and Myles give a thrilling historical-materialist take on the historical Jesus. Delivering a wealth of knowledge on the social, economic, and cultural conflicts of the time, Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict uncovers the emergence of a fervent and deadly serious religious organizer whose social and religious movement offered not only a radical end-time edict of divine reversal and judgment but also a promising new world order ruled in the interests of the peasantry. The movement's popular appeal was due in part to a desire to represent the values of ordinary rural workers, and its vision meant that the rich would have to give up their wealth, while the poor would be afforded a life of heavenly luxury. Tensions flared up considerably when the movement marched on Jerusalem and Jesus was willingly martyred for the cause. Crossley and Myles offer a vivid portrait of the man and his movement and uncover the material conditions that converged to make it happen.

Author : John Seed
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748629480

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Dissenting Histories by John Seed Pdf

The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century.Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadow of 'the Great Rebellion' of the 1640s stretched across the division between Church and Dissent.The author is not simply concerned with history as a representation of the past, but history also as part of the bitterly divided collective memory of the present. Focusing on the relationship between the history that historians wrote, and the history that men and women experienced, John Seed provides the reader with new perspectives on eighteenth-century England.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1101378379

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Dream of John Ball by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Ball
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612329796

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Then Came Violence by John Ball Pdf

Author : David Matthews,Mike Sanders,Michael Sanders
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781843845782

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Subaltern Medievalisms by David Matthews,Mike Sanders,Michael Sanders Pdf

A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.

Author : Jaco Barnard-Naude
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000929065

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Spectres of Reparation in South Africa by Jaco Barnard-Naude Pdf

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation. The failure of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to secure adequate reparation for the victims of colonisation and apartheid continues to drastically undermine the commission’s processes and legacy. Investigating the TRC’s key processes of amnesty, archiving and forgiveness in turn, the book demonstrates that each process is fundamentally thwarted by the terminal lack of reparation. These multiple forms of the spectre of reparation haunt post-apartheid society in deeply traumatogenic ways. The book proposes a new ethic of "reparative citizenship" as a means of encountering the spectres of reparation in a productive and transformative manner, generating hope even in the face of the irreparable. This book will be an important read for South Africans interested in overcoming the impasses and injustices that haunt the country, but it will also be of interest to post-conflict transitional justice and politics researchers more broadly.

Author : Michelle Weinroth,Paul Leduc Browne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773596979

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To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss by Michelle Weinroth,Paul Leduc Browne Pdf

A powerful reappraisal of radicalism in the life and work of William Morris.

Author : Phil Tinline
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787388840

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The Death of Consensus by Phil Tinline Pdf

Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities – until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.

Author : Cynthia Sugars
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783160778

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Canadian Gothic by Cynthia Sugars Pdf

This book explores the Gothic tradition in Canadian literature by tracing a distinctive reworking of the British Gothic in Canada. It traces the ways the Gothic genre was reinvented for a specifically Canadian context. On the one hand, Canadian writers expressed anxiety about the applicability of the British Gothic tradition to the colonies; on the other, they turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential. After charting this history of Gothic infusion, Canadian Gothic turns its attention to the body of Aboriginal and diasporic writings that respond to this discourse of national self-invention from a post-colonial perspective. These counter-narratives unsettle the naturalising force of this invented history, rendering the sense of Gothic comfort newly strange. The Canadian Gothic tradition has thus been a conflicted one, which reimagines the Gothic as a form of cultural sustenance. This volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada.

Author : Thomas Costley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034240650

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Lancashire Poets by Thomas Costley Pdf

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136758607

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Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida Pdf

Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values. In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.

Author : Vincent Geoghegan,Rick Wilford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317804338

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Political Ideologies by Vincent Geoghegan,Rick Wilford Pdf

Now in its fourth edition, Political Ideologies: An Introduction continues to be the best introductory textbook for students of political ideologies. Completely revised and updated throughout, this edition features: A comprehensive introduction to all of the most important ideologies Brand new chapters on multiculturalism, anarchism, and the growing influence of religion on politics More contemporary examples of twenty-first-century iterations of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, fascism, green political theory, nationalism, and feminism Enhanced discussion of the end of ideology debates and emerging theories of ideological formation Six new contributors. Accessible and packed with both historical and contemporary examples, this is the most useful textbooks for scholars and students of political ideologies. The contributors to this volume have all taught or carried out research at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy of Queen’s University, Belfast, or have close research connections with the School.