Ariel Hessayon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5661138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariel Hessayon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariel |
| FAMILY NAME | Hessayon |
| SIGNATURE | HESSAYON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-4448-2589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Stephen Wright, The Early English Baptists, 1603–1649, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Incendiary texts
.
Jews and crypto-Jews in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
There are many narratives, some old, some relatively recent, covering the presence of crypto-Jews and Jews in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I have tried, specifically with non-specialists and general readers in mind, to give an overview of that story here. Given this essay ’s origin as a public lecture commemorating the 350th anniversary of the tacit readmission of Jews to England in 1656, my account has a particular foc…
The Supposed Burning of the Racovian Catechism in 1614
The Racovian catechism is a famous summary treatise of Socinian thought. It was written in the early seventeenth century by several members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland. It is a common misconception that, upon reading the Latin edition of the Racovian catechism, which was dedicated to him, King James VI & I consigned it to the flames in 1614. Indeed, a comprehensive list of scholars who have repeated this mistake would take up too much …
Jacob Böhme’s Foremost Seventeenth-Century English Translator
John Sparrow (1615–1670), the foremost seventeenth-century English translator of the writings of the German Lutheran mystic Jacob Boehme (c.1575–1624) is a name unfamiliar to many students of early modern England. What little fame he enjoys is largely a result of the efforts of a small group of scholars interested in the reception of the Teutonic Philosopher’s writings in the British Isles. There is a brief entry on Sparrow in the Oxford Dictiona…
Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy
This book concerns one of early modern England’s most prolific female authors, Jane Lead (1624–1704). Well-researched and clearly written, these essays focus on aspects of Lead’s thought including her attitudes towards Calvinism, mysticism, gender and the apocalypse, her role within the Philadelphian Society, and her transnational legacy - particularly in the German-speaking world and North America. This book suggests that Lead was far more radic…
Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context
The essays in this collection explore a number of significant questions regarding the terms 'radical' and 'radicalism' in early modern English contexts. They investigate whether we can speak of a radical tradition, and whether radicalism was a local, national or transnational phenomenon. In so doing this volume examines the exchange of ideas and texts in the history of supposedly radical events, ideologies and movements (or moments). Once at the …
Gerrard Winstanley and Jacob Boehme
Given, firstly, justifiable claims made by the editors of the complete works of the Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley, that he was not just the ‘foremost radical of the English Revolution’ but also one of the ‘finest writers’ of a ‘glorious age of English non-fictional prose’, and secondly, the important suggestion that Winstanley was a forerunner of Quakerism, indeed that his writings shaped the formation of Quaker thought, Winstanley’s potential…
Revelation Restored
Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Early Modern Communism
Since their rediscovery in the nineteenth century—first by Liberal, Socialist, and Marxist historians and then by Protestant nonconformists—the English Diggers of 1649–50 have been successively appropriated; their \nimage refashioned in the service of new political doctrines that have sought legitimacy partly through emphasizing supposed ideological antecedents. In a previous article I demonstrated that recent attempts to incorporate the Diggers …
The Making of Abiezer Coppe
This article seeks to uncover the origins of the ‘Ranters’ by examining Abiezer Coppe's early life and social network. It suggests that Coppe's background, experiences and milieu – particularly his Baptist phase and the associations he made during this period – are crucial to appreciate the genesis of the ‘Ranters’. As such it should be regarded as a further contribution towards the growing consensus that the origins of ‘radicalism’ in the Englis…
Apocalypse Then
This is, in many ways, quite a disappointing book. It seems intended to accompany—or to have grown out of—a North American university course on the contribution of apocalyptic culture to Western Civilisation. Nonetheless, Apocalypse Then falls between two stools: often too sophisticated for its target audience of undergraduates and general readers, yet at times too superficial to convince consistently the expert. Consequently it is neither textbo…
Restoring the Garden of Eden in England’s Green and Pleasant Land
of agrarian protest). Th e acknowledged leaders of these "new Levellers" or "diggers" were William Everard (1602?-fl.1651) and Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76). Apprenticed in the Merchant Taylors' Company, Everard seems to have been a Parliamentarian spy during the English Civil War, was implicated in a plot to kill Charles I, jailed and subsequently cashiered from the army. Th ereaft er Everard was imprisoned by the bailiff s of Kingston in Surrey,…
English Radicalism, 1550-1850
The Face of the City
William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity
William Blake (1757–1827), engraver, artist and poet, is now of course an internationally known figure whose reputation is that of a visionary possessed of an almost superhuman talent. Although an obituarist regarded him as ‘one of those ingenious persons ... whose eccentricities were still more remarkable than their professional abilities’, even in his own day this ‘religious mystic’ was lauded as an ‘extraordinary man’ in whom ‘all the elements…
Windows of the Soul
Blown by the Spirit
Fabricating radical traditions
Vestiges of radicalism recovered in manuscripts and rediscovered in printed texts have sometimes intermingled with perceived radical heritages to produce vibrant radical eruptions. This can be seen by tracing the ways through which radicalism in the English Revolution has been successively appropriated and constructed - and how, subject to competing interpretations, these fabrications have disintegrated leaving only shards of radical traditions
A Textual History of the King James Bible
The Supposed Burning of the Racovian Catechism in 1614
The Racovian catechism is a famous summary treatise of Socinian thought. It was written in the early seventeenth century by several members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland. It is a common misconception that, upon reading the Latin edition of the Racovian catechism, which was dedicated to him, King James VI & I consigned it to the flames in 1614. Indeed, a comprehensive list of scholars who have repeated this mistake would take up too much …
The Making of Abiezer Coppe
This article seeks to uncover the origins of the ‘Ranters’ by examining Abiezer Coppe's early life and social network. It suggests that Coppe's background, experiences and milieu – particularly his Baptist phase and the associations he made during this period – are crucial to appreciate the genesis of the ‘Ranters’. As such it should be regarded as a further contribution towards the growing consensus that the origins of ‘radicalism’ in the Englis…
Fabricating radical traditions
Vestiges of radicalism recovered in manuscripts and rediscovered in printed texts have sometimes intermingled with perceived radical heritages to produce vibrant radical eruptions. This can be seen by tracing the ways through which radicalism in the English Revolution has been successively appropriated and constructed - and how, subject to competing interpretations, these fabrications have disintegrated leaving only shards of radical traditions
A Textual History of the King James Bible
Blown by the Spirit
Windows of the Soul
Restoring the Garden of Eden in England’s Green and Pleasant Land
of agrarian protest). Th e acknowledged leaders of these "new Levellers" or "diggers" were William Everard (1602?-fl.1651) and Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76). Apprenticed in the Merchant Taylors' Company, Everard seems to have been a Parliamentarian spy during the English Civil War, was implicated in a plot to kill Charles I, jailed and subsequently cashiered from the army. Th ereaft er Everard was imprisoned by the bailiff s of Kingston in Surrey,…
English Radicalism, 1550-1850
The Face of the City
William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity
William Blake (1757–1827), engraver, artist and poet, is now of course an internationally known figure whose reputation is that of a visionary possessed of an almost superhuman talent. Although an obituarist regarded him as ‘one of those ingenious persons ... whose eccentricities were still more remarkable than their professional abilities’, even in his own day this ‘religious mystic’ was lauded as an ‘extraordinary man’ in whom ‘all the elements…
Early Modern Communism
Since their rediscovery in the nineteenth century—first by Liberal, Socialist, and Marxist historians and then by Protestant nonconformists—the English Diggers of 1649–50 have been successively appropriated; their \nimage refashioned in the service of new political doctrines that have sought legitimacy partly through emphasizing supposed ideological antecedents. In a previous article I demonstrated that recent attempts to incorporate the Diggers …
The Making of Abiezer Coppe
This article seeks to uncover the origins of the ‘Ranters’ by examining Abiezer Coppe's early life and social network. It suggests that Coppe's background, experiences and milieu – particularly his Baptist phase and the associations he made during this period – are crucial to appreciate the genesis of the ‘Ranters’. As such it should be regarded as a further contribution towards the growing consensus that the origins of ‘radicalism’ in the Englis…
Apocalypse Then
This is, in many ways, quite a disappointing book. It seems intended to accompany—or to have grown out of—a North American university course on the contribution of apocalyptic culture to Western Civilisation. Nonetheless, Apocalypse Then falls between two stools: often too sophisticated for its target audience of undergraduates and general readers, yet at times too superficial to convince consistently the expert. Consequently it is neither textbo…
Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Revelation Restored
Gerrard Winstanley and Jacob Boehme
Given, firstly, justifiable claims made by the editors of the complete works of the Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley, that he was not just the ‘foremost radical of the English Revolution’ but also one of the ‘finest writers’ of a ‘glorious age of English non-fictional prose’, and secondly, the important suggestion that Winstanley was a forerunner of Quakerism, indeed that his writings shaped the formation of Quaker thought, Winstanley’s potential…
Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy
This book concerns one of early modern England’s most prolific female authors, Jane Lead (1624–1704). Well-researched and clearly written, these essays focus on aspects of Lead’s thought including her attitudes towards Calvinism, mysticism, gender and the apocalypse, her role within the Philadelphian Society, and her transnational legacy - particularly in the German-speaking world and North America. This book suggests that Lead was far more radic…
Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context
The essays in this collection explore a number of significant questions regarding the terms 'radical' and 'radicalism' in early modern English contexts. They investigate whether we can speak of a radical tradition, and whether radicalism was a local, national or transnational phenomenon. In so doing this volume examines the exchange of ideas and texts in the history of supposedly radical events, ideologies and movements (or moments). Once at the …
Jacob Böhme’s Foremost Seventeenth-Century English Translator
John Sparrow (1615–1670), the foremost seventeenth-century English translator of the writings of the German Lutheran mystic Jacob Boehme (c.1575–1624) is a name unfamiliar to many students of early modern England. What little fame he enjoys is largely a result of the efforts of a small group of scholars interested in the reception of the Teutonic Philosopher’s writings in the British Isles. There is a brief entry on Sparrow in the Oxford Dictiona…
The Supposed Burning of the Racovian Catechism in 1614
The Racovian catechism is a famous summary treatise of Socinian thought. It was written in the early seventeenth century by several members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland. It is a common misconception that, upon reading the Latin edition of the Racovian catechism, which was dedicated to him, King James VI & I consigned it to the flames in 1614. Indeed, a comprehensive list of scholars who have repeated this mistake would take up too much …
Stephen Wright, The Early English Baptists, 1603–1649, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Incendiary texts
.
Jews and crypto-Jews in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
There are many narratives, some old, some relatively recent, covering the presence of crypto-Jews and Jews in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I have tried, specifically with non-specialists and general readers in mind, to give an overview of that story here. Given this essay ’s origin as a public lecture commemorating the 350th anniversary of the tacit readmission of Jews to England in 1656, my account has a particular foc…
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