Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries

Mark Jendrysik’s work examines the political and religious ideals that buttressed the first modern revolution. This book studies the years 1649 to 1653, from regicide to the establishment of the Cromwellian Commonwealth, during which time English writers took stock of a disordered England and considered the possibility of a politically and religiously reordered state. Jendrysik aims to provide - through a comparative analysis of the work of Thomas Hobbes and his contemporaries Filmer, Winstanley, Cromwell and Milton - a new understanding of the Civil-War-era intelligentsia’s assessment of the breakdown of political and social order and their prescriptions and plans for a new post-revolutionary England.