ISBN: 9780511763885

In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide.This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an… Altro …

In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide.This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire 'on which the sun never set'.David Rollison argues that the 'English explosion' was the outcome of a long social revolution with roots deep in the medieval past.A succession of crises from the Norman Conquest to the English Revolution were causal links and chains of collective memory in a unique, vernacular, populist movement.The keyword of this long revolution, 'commonwealth', has been largely invisible in traditional constitutional history.This panoramic synthesis of political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, economic, literary and linguistic movements offers a 'new constitutional history' in which state institutions and power elites were subordinate and answerable to a greater community that the early modern English called 'commonwealth' and we call 'society'.; PDF; History & Transport > Humanities > Regional & national history > European history > British & Irish, Cambridge University Press<

ISBN: 9780511763885

In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide.This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an… Altro …

In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide.This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire 'on which the sun never set'.David Rollison argues that the 'English explosion' was the outcome of a long social revolution with roots deep in the medieval past.A succession of crises from the Norman Conquest to the English Revolution were causal links and chains of collective memory in a unique, vernacular, populist movement.The keyword of this long revolution, 'commonwealth', has been largely invisible in traditional constitutional history.This panoramic synthesis of political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, economic, literary and linguistic movements offers a 'new constitutional history' in which state institutions and power elites were subordinate and answerable to a greater community that the early modern English called 'commonwealth' and we call 'society'.; PDF; History & Transport > Humanities > Regional & national history > European history > British & Irish, Cambridge University Press<

ISBN: 9780511763885

Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.; EPUB \ Peter Boag; History & Transport > Humamitie… Altro …

Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.; EPUB \ Peter Boag; History & Transport > Humamities > Regional & national history > European history > British & Irish, University of California Press<

ISBN: 9780511763885

Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.; PDF; History & Transport > Humamities > Regional &… Altro …

Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.; PDF; History & Transport > Humamities > Regional & national history > European history > British & Irish, University of California Press<

2010, ISBN: 9780511763885

Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), Auflage, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2010