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Middle Ages

Enclosing knowledge: books and power in the English countryside

Posted on 7th July 2023 by International Socialism

A review of The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain 1660-1800, James D Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £75 From the 16th until the 19th century, the multifaceted process known as enclosure transformed England’s rural landscape.… Continue Reading →

Book reviews feudalism, History, Middle Ages, transition to capitalism

Religion and revolution in the Middle Ages

Posted on 6th July 2015 by Camilla

In International Socialism 141 Roland Boer gives a fascinating account of how Luther Blissett’s novel Q is “a stunning reclamation of the revolutionary Christian tradition for a whole generation of anti-capitalist activists”.1 The novel concerns the period of the radical… Continue Reading →

Article Middle Ages, Religion, Revolution
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