![]() ![]() Anyone who has been involved in socialor political protest will warm to the urgency of the descriptions of theactivists' preparations and attempts to mobilise the public. Later on, but still before the Reformation, the Czech Taboritessought to abolish power and all institutions, including Church and State.Revolutionary thinking in Europe was not unique to the Enlightenment andthe centuries since.Ī spy thriller and a bawdy, action-packed picaresque, Q is the story ofwhat we would now call an activist, if not an anarchist, told against thebackground of Reformation Europe. Nearly five hundred years before the Russian serfs were emancipated, WatTyler demanded that “no man should be a serf, nor do homage or any mannerof service to any lord” and that no one should serve any man but at hisown will. ![]()
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