The History of England · David Crowther
Milton, Nedham and the Commonwealth with Anthony Bromley
October 6, 2024·46 min·4 clips
Why was the English Commonwealth not just a time of Puritan gloom but also a period of surprising creativity and cultural energy?
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A sharp argument about the Commonwealth that avoids turning it into a simple success story.
This episode treats the Commonwealth as a contest over power, belief, and the machinery of rule, not as a neat republican victory story. The contrast between Milton's essentially oligarchic republicanism and Nedham's case for rotation gives the discussion real edge, and it keeps…
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You want the Commonwealth as a fight over ideas, not a tidy schoolbook march through English history.
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