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What Happens When You Kill Your King
- kelseyfrog 4y agoWhat a mess of an article. If you're looking for a history of the English civil war that's more easily understandable than the article and genuinely engaging, I can't recommend Mike Duncan's podcast on it enough[1]. 1. http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~jwp/revolutions-episode-index.html http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~jwp/revolutions-episode-index.html
- devindotcom 4y agoIt's a book review.
- jt2190 4y agoSpecifically of: “The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689” by Jonathan Healey https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659745/the-blazing-world-by-jonathan-healey/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659745/the-blazing-... “The Making of Oliver Cromwell” by Ronald Hutton https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300266443/the-making-of-oliver-cromwell/ https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300266443/the-making-of-... “Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne” by Katherine Rundel https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607401/superinfinite https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607401/superinfinite
- devindotcom 4y agoYes, I actually intend to read the book in question (with some salt on the side) but I'm waiting until I finish the Wolf Hall books because I don't want any Cromwell spoilers! An absurd situation but there it is.
- MilStdJunkie 4y agoI rather liked it, but that's not a fair opinion, because way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I did a BA in a nearly adjacent historical area. Not quite going in cold.
- ZunarJ5 4y agoChapo Trap House recently did a series too: https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/ https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/
- flonkyflonk 4y agoIt's a review of three books, not a beginners guide to that period. I enjoyed and it made me want to read the books, so I guess it did its job. It also contains a philosopher related pun which is either one of the best or worst I've ever heard. As great puns should be like that, it's probably the latter.
- gerdesj 4y agoThis is not a trivial article. It is well researched and very well written until it hits the finale. To say something like this without blushing: "The Restoration may have had its glories, but a larger glory belongs to those who groped, for a time, toward something freer and better, and who made us, in particular—Americans, whose Founding Fathers, from Roger Williams to the Quakers, leaped intellectually right out of the English crucible—what we spiritually remain." ... is quite breathtaking. Get a grip.
- skybrian 4y agoIf you're going to say something was wrong with it, you should go ahead and say what you think what was wrong with it, rather than leaving it to your readers' imaginations.
- oxfeed65261 4y agohttps://archive.ph/iGq3f https://archive.ph/iGq3f
- bambax 4y ago> Healey draws from obscurity the mild-mannered polemicist William Walwyn, who wrote pamphlets with such exquisitely delicate titles as (...) “Some Considerations Tending to the Undeceiving of Those, Whose Judgements Are Misinformed.” This is so good. Today we have "DEBUNKED" in big flashing letters and sounds of horns and crashes. We should produce more considerations to try to undeceive those, whose judgements are misinformed.