Nerd Picnic reviewed The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill
Review of 'The World Turned Upside Down' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I started reading this on January 26, 2013 and finished on January 25, 2014. Cool, right?
Realized, a few paragraphs in, that I didn't have adequate background knowledge of the Lollards, Diggers, Ranters, Quakers, Muggletonians(?), antinomians, Fifth Monarchists, Familists, or the New Model Army. Or even the Puritans, surprisingly.
It's still just really cool to read - this is a historian's historian, the type of book where you think "has this guy read EVERYTHING? How did he even know to look there?" The chapter on the invention of the protestant ethic made the point briefly but effectively that the idea of working hard all the time was an idea so foreign that it seemed unnatural.
Full of great quotes. Gotta read up on this Winstanely fellow.