How Christopher Hill Turned the World Upside Down With English Radical Movements

How Christopher Hill Turned the World Upside Down With English Radical Movements

Christopher Hill’s 1972 work, The World Turned Upside Down, changed the way we think about religion, philosophy, and politics in the 17th century. Rather than focusing on the biographies of great individuals such as Charles I or Oliver Cromwell, Hill looks instead at the common people who formed what is sometimes referred to as the “lunatic fringe.” Rather than dismissing them as incoherent or fanatical, Hill takes seriously the new ways of thin…