In 1649 a small band led by Gerrard Winstanley began digging and planting the common land on St. George’s Hill in Surrey, claiming the earth as a common treasury for all. Berens traces the movement back through the German and English Reformations and the Civil War, then sets out Winstanley’s religious and social ideas through long extracts from his pamphlets.
A key source on the radical edge of the English Revolution, for readers of political and religious history. Download the free EPUB.