In "The Fifth Monarchy Men "(Faber, 1972), Professor Capp places
the movement in the context of the rise of millenarian thought in
Europe from the Reformation and its rapid spread in England during
the Civil Wars. For many radicals, the execution of King Charles
cleared the way for King Jesus, and heralded the establishment of a
revolutionary millennium. The apparent apostasy of the Rump
Parliament and Oliver Cromwell channelled part of the wave of
millenarian feeling into the formation of a specific sect. This
first comprehensive study of the Fifth Monarchists movement traces
its history and examines its social, political, legal and religious
proposals.
Although it had the support of some gentry and army officers, it
was essentially an urban movement of artisans, apprentices, and
even labourers, reaching lower down the social scale than any
contemporary radical movement, with the possible exception of the
Diggers. Professor Capp discusses its structure, and its
relationship to other revolutionary sects, notably the Levellers
and Quakers. He analyses the social, political and economic
programmes of the self-styled saints which, though revolutionary,
were elitist rather than equalitarian. The Fifth Monarchists'
militant foreign policy was shaped by the twofold consideration of
exporting the revolution and of strengthening the position of
English trade. Their much-derided call for the re-establishment of
the Mosaic Code is the culmination of a long tradition of such
thinking amongst Puritan and earlier writers.
Appendices provide biographies of almost 280 Fifth Monarchists
and the location of all known Fifth Monarchist groups.
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