Volume 9, Number 12 · January 4, 1968
A Hectic Revolution
By J.P. Kenyon
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
by Patrick Collinson
University of California, 528 pp., $10.00
Commonwealth and Protectorate; The English Civil War and Its Aftermath
by Ivan Roots
Schocken, 326 pp., $8.50
The Fifth Monarchy Men
by P.G. Rogers
Oxford, 172, 8 plates pp., $4.80
The period between the Reformation and the Restoration of Charles II was the heroic age of English history. The lightest actions were heavy with decision, the simplest utterances were couched in prophetic language. Ivan Roots's characterization of the Great Rebellion can be applied to the whole period:
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