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“Immensely rich and exciting . . . Christopher Hill has that supreme gift of being able to show us the seventeenth-century world from the inside.”—Arthur Marwick in New Society

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 “master-less” men, the outbursts of sexual freedom

The World Turned Upside Down Radical Ideas During

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 6 February 2020
      ISBN-13 9780141993133
      978-0141993133
      ISBN-10 0141993138
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      Non Fiction History European history: medieval period, middle ages Politics, Philosophy & Society History of ideas Protestantism and Protestant Churches

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      “Immensely rich and exciting . . . Christopher Hill has that supreme gift of being able to show us the seventeenth-century world from the inside.”—Arthur Marwick in New Society

      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 “master-less” men, the outbursts of sexual freedom

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