The World Turned Upside Down
Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Penguin
Paperback
: 12 Dec 1991
£12.99
Synopsis
Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success 'might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic'. In The World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering 'masterless' men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs.
Table of contents
PrefaceAbbreviations
1 Introduction
2 The Parchment and the Fire
3 Masterless Men
4 Agitators and Officers
5 The North and West
6 A Nation of Prophets
7 Levellers and True Levellers
8 Sin and Hell
9 Seekers and Ranters
10 Ranters and Quakers
11 Samuel Fisher and the Bible
12 John Warr and the Law
13 The Island of Great Bedlam
14 Mechanic Preachers and the Mechanical Philosophy
15 Base Impudent Kisses
16 Life Against Death
17 The World Restored
18 Conclusion
Appendices:
1 Hobbes and Winstanley: Reason and Politics
2 Milton and Bunyan: Dialogue with the Radicals
Index
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780140137323
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 432
Published : 12 Dec 1991
Publisher : Penguin
The World Turned Upside Down
Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
£12.99
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