Christopher Hill
Hill revolutionized the study of the English Revolution by reading it as a social upheaval from below as well as a constitutional struggle above. His recovery of the radical sects — Diggers, Ranters, Levellers — opened up an entire world of popular religious politics.
Works
- The World Turned Upside DownStudy of radical ideas, millenarianism, and utopian movements in English Revolution
- Intellectual Origins of the English RevolutionIntellectual history connecting religious and political thought before English Revolution
- The Century of RevolutionComprehensive narrative of seventeenth-century English political and social upheaval
- Milton and the English RevolutionAnalysis of poet Milton's engagement with radical political ideas of his era