ABSTRACT
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution most clearly reflects the two main interests that Christopher Hill explored throughout his career: early modern printed texts and Marxism. In his 1965 work The Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, Hill linked a variety of key thinkers in the early part of the seventeenth century simply because he saw them all as opponents of the idea of monarchy. Most importantly, Hill was a key player in painting a picture of the seventeenth century as an “age of revolution,” characterized by social, political, economic, and religious upheaval and turmoil. The World Turned Upside Down is thought of as one of Hill’s major works, and, indeed, one of the major works on the period it discusses. The World Turned Upside Down shows the richness and variety of thought and ambitions going on further down the social ladder during the revolution.
