England, Interrupted: The Interregnum and Restoration, 1650-1685
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The Puritan Paradox
The whole interregnum, i think, illustrates a paradox that you could call the puritan paradox. The commonwealth and protectorate regime allowed a great degree of freedom on the intellectual and religious plane. But they tried to exert more and more practical control over actual activities on the ground. So there's this weird sort of trade off, you might say, a kind of partial or illusory freedom.
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