O DESCRIERE A FAIMOSULUI REGAT AL MACARIEI:
A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS KINGDOME OF MACARIA A NEW INTERPRETATION

Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to describe and interpret one of the frequently quoted but rarely read seventeenth-century manifestoes. ‘A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria’ is an expression of the utopian movement and an important manifesto of the Puritan movement in England. ‘Macaria’ originated inside the Hartlib circle, was anonymously published and for a long time was considered a work by Samuel Hartlib. Even if brief in terms of dimensions and less valuable from a literary point of view than other seventeenth-century utopias, Macaria and its author made an interesting contribution to the utopian literature, developing important moral and political ideas, promoting the value of ’eternal peace’ and popularizing some of the Baconian ideals. In my paper I will interpret this text in the wider context of the historical moment of the year 1641, the Baconianism of mid-seventeenth-century England and the subsequent millenarism of the ‘Puritan revolution

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