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The Levellers were an important political and religious movement in [[England|England]] (1647-1649) at the time of Cromwell, which, obviously influenced by [[Anabaptism|Anabaptism]], demanded absolute civil and religious liberty and the complete separation of church and state, but which finally degenerated into a passionate attack on the state and was therefore gradually suppressed. [[Plockhoy, Pieter Cornelisz (1620?-1700?)|Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy]]<em> </em>was associated with the Levellers.
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The Levellers were an important political and religious movement in [[England|England]] (1647-1649) at the time of Cromwell, which, obviously influenced by [[Anabaptism|Anabaptism]], demanded absolute civil and religious liberty and the complete separation of church and state, but which finally degenerated into a passionate attack on the state and was therefore gradually suppressed. [[Plockhoy, Pieter Cornelisz (1620?-1700?)|Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy]] was associated with the Levellers.
 
= Bibliography =
 
= Bibliography =
 
Bernstein, Eduard. <em>Cromwell &amp; communism: socialism and democracy in the great English revolution. </em>London: Allen &amp; Unwin, 1930..
 
Bernstein, Eduard. <em>Cromwell &amp; communism: socialism and democracy in the great English revolution. </em>London: Allen &amp; Unwin, 1930..
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Harder, Leland and Marvin Harder. <em>Plockhoy from Zurik-zee; the study of a Dutch reformer in Puritan England and colonial America</em>. and M. <em>Plockhoy from Zurik-zee. </em>Newton, KS, Board of Education and Publication, 1952.
 
Harder, Leland and Marvin Harder. <em>Plockhoy from Zurik-zee; the study of a Dutch reformer in Puritan England and colonial America</em>. and M. <em>Plockhoy from Zurik-zee. </em>Newton, KS, Board of Education and Publication, 1952.
  
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. <em>Mennonitisches Lexikon</em>. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II: 644.
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Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II: 644.
  
 
Pease, Theodore Calvin. <em>The Leveller movement : a study in the history and political theory of the English Great Civil War. </em>Washington : American Historical Association, 1916.
 
Pease, Theodore Calvin. <em>The Leveller movement : a study in the history and political theory of the English Great Civil War. </em>Washington : American Historical Association, 1916.

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The Levellers were an important political and religious movement in England (1647-1649) at the time of Cromwell, which, obviously influenced by Anabaptism, demanded absolute civil and religious liberty and the complete separation of church and state, but which finally degenerated into a passionate attack on the state and was therefore gradually suppressed. Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy was associated with the Levellers.

Bibliography

Bernstein, Eduard. Cromwell & communism: socialism and democracy in the great English revolution. London: Allen & Unwin, 1930..

Harder, Leland and Marvin Harder. Plockhoy from Zurik-zee; the study of a Dutch reformer in Puritan England and colonial America. and M. Plockhoy from Zurik-zee. Newton, KS, Board of Education and Publication, 1952.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II: 644.

Pease, Theodore Calvin. The Leveller movement : a study in the history and political theory of the English Great Civil War. Washington : American Historical Association, 1916.

Robertson, D. B. The Religious Foundations of Leveller Democracy. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1951.

Troeltsch, Ernst. The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches. New York: Macmillan, 1931.

Weingarten, Hermann. Die Revolutionskirchen Englands ein Beitrag zur inneren Geschichte der englischen Kirche und der Reformation. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1868.


Author(s) Christian Neff
Date Published 1957

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