| Title : | The world turned upside down : radical ideas during the English revolution | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Christopher Hill, Author | | Publisher: | London, Temple Smith | | Publication Date: | 1972 | | Pagination: | 353 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-14-013732-3 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Great Britain - History - Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660
Great Britain --Intellectual life --17th century.
| | Class number: | 914.2 | | Abstract: | 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. | | Contents note: | 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 Great Badlam; Mechanic Preachers and the Mechanical Philosophy; Base Impudent Kisses; Life Against Death; The World Restored; Conclusion; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13769 |
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