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.
關於作者：
Christopher Hill was educated at St Peter''s School, York, and
at Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1934 was made a fellow of All
Souls College, Oxford. In 1936 he became lecturer in modern history
at University College, Cardiff, and two years later fellow and
tutor in modern history at Balliol. After war service, which
included two years in the Russian department of the Foreign Office,
he returned to Oxford in 1945. From 1958 until 1965 he was
university lecturer in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history,
and from 1965 to 1978 he was Master of Balliol College. After
leaving Balliol he was for two years a Visiting Professor at the
Open University. Dr Hill, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
and of the British Academy, has received numerous honorary degrees
from British universities, as well as the Hon. Dr. Sorbonne
Nouvelle in 1979. His publications include Lenin and the Russian
Revolution; Puritanism and Revolution; Society and Puritanism in
Pre-Revolutionary England; Reformation to Industrial Revolution
second volume in the Penguin Economic History of Britain; God''s
Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution; The World
Turned Upside Down; Milton and the English Revolution, which won
the Royal Society of Literature Award; The Experience of Defeat:
Milton and Some Contemporaries; A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious
People: John Bunyan and His Church, which won the 1989 W. H. Smith
Literary Award; The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century
Revolution, which was shortlisted for the 1993 NCR Book Award; and
Liberty against the Law. Many of these titles are published by
Penguin. Dr Hill is married with two children.
目錄：
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Parchment and the Fire
Masterless Men
Agitators and Officers
The North and West
A Nation of Prophets
Levellers and True Levellers
Sin and Hell
Seekers and Ranters
Ranters and Quakers
Samuel Fisher and the Bible
John Warr and the Law
The Island of Greaf Bedlam
Mechanic Preachers and the
Mechanical Philosophy
Base Impudent Kisses
Lif Against Death
The World Restored
Conclusion
Appendices :
Index
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