The essays in this collection explore significant questions regarding the terms 'radical' and 'radicalism' in early modern England. They investigate whether we can speak of a radical tradition, and whether radicalism was a local, national or transnational phenomenon. It looks at the role of migration and exchange of ideas, images and texts in the history of supposedly radical events, ideologies and movements (or moments). Offering a timely reassessment of the subject, it reflects the latest research on seventeenth-century British and Irish radicalism.

Contents: Introduction: reappraising early modern radicals and radicalisms, Ariel Hessayon and David Finnegan; The beauty of holiness and the poetics of Antinomianism: Richard Crashaw, John Saltmarsh and the language of religious radicalism in the 1640s, Nicholas McDowell; Radicalism relocated: Royalist politics and pamphleteering of the late 1640s, Jason Peacey; News from the New Jerusalem: Giles Calvert and the radical experience, Mario Caricchio; Gerrard Winstanley, radical reformer, Ariel Hessayon; The poetics of biblical prophecy: Abiezer Coppe's late converted Midrash, Noam Flinker; Empire-building: the English republic, Scotland and Ireland, Jim Smyth; 17th-century Italy and English radical movements, Stefano Villani; A radical review of the Cambridge Platonists, Sarah Hutton; Radical revelation? Apocalyptic ideas in late 17th-century England, Warren Johnston; Mapping friendship and dissent: the letters from Joseph Boyse to Ralph Thoresby, 1680-1710, Sandra Hynes; The books and times of Anthony Collins (1676-1729), free-thinker, radical reader and independent Whig, Giovanni Tarantino; William Hone (1780-1842), print culture, and the nature of radicalism, Jason McElligot; Index.-

Ariel Hessayon, Goldsmiths College, UK and Dr David Finnegan, Goldsmiths College, UK