DA NOVA À VELHA INGLATERRA: circulação de impressos profético-políticos entre a colônia e a metrópole no século XVII

Abstract

Nesse artigo, abordamos o intercâmbio de ideias e textos profetico-politicos entre a Nova e a Velha Inglaterra no seculo XVII. Para isso, focamo-nos nas relacoes estabelecidas entre dois protestantes ingleses, que migraram para a America nos anos 1630, John Cotton e William Aspinwall; e dois livreiros londrinos, Hannah Allen e Livewell Chapman. Cotton e Aspinwall participaram ativamente das discussoes coloniais a respeito da conformacao do governo civil. Suas reflexoes circularam na America e na metropole, entre os anos 1640 e 1650, gracas as publicacoes de Allen e Chapman. Procuramos analisar como os textos elaborados no contexto colonial foram impressos e disseminados na metropole, onde foram adaptados aos debates politico-religiosos que ocorriam na Inglaterra seiscentista. This article aims to analyze the interchange of prophetical-political ideas and texts between New and Old England in 17 th century. For this purpose, we focus our studies in the connections established among two English protestants, who migrated to America in the 1630s, John Cotton and William Aspinwall; and two London booksellers, Hannah Allen and Livewell Chapman. Cotton and Aspinwall actively participated on the colonial discussions about the civil government. Their ideas circulated in America and in the metropolis, between the 1640s and 1650s, due to Allen’s and Chapman’s publishing business. We seek to analyze how these texts elaborated in the colonial contexts were printed and disseminated in the metropolis, where they were adapted to the political-religious debates in 17 th century England.