Christopher Hill

The World Turned Upside Down

Study of radical ideas, millenarianism, and utopian movements in English Revolution

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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.

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