[NON BLOG] My New 17th Century Books
May. 19th, 2004 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldToday, in the Stauffer library, I went to the Early English Books Online website--to which Queen's University is subscribed--and printed off four books, all from the mid-17th century, all for by Milton and empire class.
For my future reading pleasure (and past edification) I download two authors' works. First to be so favoured was Vincent Gookin, author of the tract The Author and the Great Case of Transplanting the Irish into Connaught Vindicated, which recommended the expulsion of the Irish Catholics into that one Irish province. It's interesting how he justifies this massive ethnic cleansing (never fully carried out) on the grounds of national security against a religiously alien foe. In the context of the course, John Phillips' 1653 translation of Bartolomé de las Casas' Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies is interesting, inasmuch as it deals with Catholic Spain, as much of a threat to England because of its Catholicism and associated tendencies towards the barbaric massacres of non-Catholics (Protestants, Indians, et cetera).
Also downloaded were Margaret Fell's A Loving Salutation to the Seed of Abraham among the Jews and The Humble Addresses of Menasseh Ben Israel, A Divine and Doctor of Physick, in Behalf of The Jewish Nation. These are for an upcoming presentation I'll be doing next week on the themes of Jewish resettlement on Cromwellian England. I'm thinking of examining Jewish reactions to the proposal of settlement, but I need more information on this since apparently Menasseh ben Israel was the only Jew writing on the proposals of Cromwell, Milton, et al to reimport Jews into England (a necessary step, you see, for England to successfully make the transition to God's kingdom of Earth).
I'll miss access to academic databases, you know.
For my future reading pleasure (and past edification) I download two authors' works. First to be so favoured was Vincent Gookin, author of the tract The Author and the Great Case of Transplanting the Irish into Connaught Vindicated, which recommended the expulsion of the Irish Catholics into that one Irish province. It's interesting how he justifies this massive ethnic cleansing (never fully carried out) on the grounds of national security against a religiously alien foe. In the context of the course, John Phillips' 1653 translation of Bartolomé de las Casas' Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies is interesting, inasmuch as it deals with Catholic Spain, as much of a threat to England because of its Catholicism and associated tendencies towards the barbaric massacres of non-Catholics (Protestants, Indians, et cetera).
Also downloaded were Margaret Fell's A Loving Salutation to the Seed of Abraham among the Jews and The Humble Addresses of Menasseh Ben Israel, A Divine and Doctor of Physick, in Behalf of The Jewish Nation. These are for an upcoming presentation I'll be doing next week on the themes of Jewish resettlement on Cromwellian England. I'm thinking of examining Jewish reactions to the proposal of settlement, but I need more information on this since apparently Menasseh ben Israel was the only Jew writing on the proposals of Cromwell, Milton, et al to reimport Jews into England (a necessary step, you see, for England to successfully make the transition to God's kingdom of Earth).
I'll miss access to academic databases, you know.
